And It May Signal a Bigger Shift for the Animation Industry Netflix is officially moving deeper into AI-powered animation production with a new internal initiative called INKubator. According to reports from Cartoon Brew and other outlets, the company is building a studio focused on “GenAI-native” animated workflows for shorts and special projects. The initiative appears…
Last week, I saw a post from an artist who said something interesting. He had a job interview. He spoke to a human HR, but those conversations are actually recorded. Ten minutes later, he received a detailed report about who he is as a professional and as a person. Here’s the part that caught my…
Academy Scientific and Technical Awards Winners Announced The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has revealed the recipients of this year’s Sci-Tech Awards, honouring innovators behind tech that drives filmmaking forward. This includes tools and systems that stretch from simulation and rendering to materials and shading. The ceremony is set for April 28, 2026,…
1) Governments Are Now Funding VFX Like Infrastructure India’s 2026 Union Budget officially put the Orange Economy on the national priority list.That includes animation, visual effects, gaming, and comics. The plan is not just subsidies for studios. It includes creator labs inside thousands of schools and colleges to build a long-term talent pipeline. This is…
Studios Are About To Train AI On Their Own Assets. Wētā Just Made the First Move. The announcement from Wētā FX and Amazon Web Services feels like a turning point for the visual effects industry. The partnership is not only about new AI tools for production. It signals the beginning of a major shift in…
Boris FX has launched Silhouette 2025.5, the newest update to its industry standard rotoscoping and paint software suite. The upgrade further expands its AI-assisted matte tools, letting users select objects through natural language prompts and export the results as Cryptomatte data. The big new flex? Price check ( INR 💸) Silhouette, originally released two decades…
What if you could render 3D primitives directly inside Nuke, with lighting, shadows, reflections, and even depth maps without using scanline render or ray render node ? While many use it for image filters, color processing, or procedural textures, BlinkScript is powerful enough to handle raymarching algorithms. By combining BlinkScript with SDF math, we can…
BlinkScript in Nuke is a powerful way to create custom GPU-accelerated tools, and here’s a fun example: BugSwarm. This script simulates a swarm of tiny bugs flying randomly inside a defined area, adding life and motion to a shot without the need for external particle plugins. This blink script works only Nuke 16 and above!!…
There’s been a lot of AI/ML stuff in Siggraph this year, but one thing that was quite interesting is the Image Engine paper about generating alpha mattes for persons/objects using Machine learning. It’s called “Automated Video Segmentation Machine Learning Pipeline” by Johannes Merz and Lucien Fostier. The artist just has to load the plate and …
Every time I open LinkedIn, it’s a wall of “Look at this amazing AI breakthrough!” videos and images 90% of which are half-baked, misinformed, and so far from production-ready it’s laughable. While Disney is busy suing Midjourney for copyright infringement, they also quietly teamed up with AI company Metaphysic to deepfake Dwayne Johnson’s face onto…
