The Television Academy has announced the 2026 Emmy nominations for Outstanding Special Visual Effects, with Apple TV emerging as the biggest winner in the season and movie category. Apple secured three of the six nominations through Foundation, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age, highlighting the platform’s investment in large scale science fiction,…
1. Adobe Acquires Topaz Labs Adobe is buying Topaz Labs! If you’ve ever used Topaz Video AI, Gigapixel AI, or Photo AI, you already know how powerful these tools are. Adobe says they’ll continue working as usual while the deal is being completed. Now this is more than just another company acquisition. Topaz has some…
₹116 Crore Investment in VFX Zee Entertainment Enterprises announced a ₹116 crore investment into PhantomFX to expand VFX, animation, and AI-driven content production. The move focuses on building original IP, scaling studio capacity, and integrating advanced pipelines for OTT and global content delivery. This isn’t just funding, it’s a power shift. Indian studios are moving…
ComfyUI Just Solved a Huge Problem (Dynamic VRAM) ComfyUI introduced Dynamic VRAM, and this is actually a big deal. What changed: 👉 Why this matters:This is the first real step toward democratizing heavy AI workflows locally.Less RAM dependency = more artists can run advanced tools without upgrading hardware. OpenAI Shuts Down Sora OpenAI is reportedly…
Here’s a roundup of the major VFX news from the past week across creative tools, workflows, and open source developments: Seedance 2.0 — Next-Gen AI Video Generation Seedance 2.0 grabbed attention as one of the most talked-about AI video generation engines. It promises frame-level precision, multimodal input (images, video, audio, text), and consistent character and…
Awards Season Officially Begins! Awards season is officially coming up with the Golden Globe Awards landing on January 11, followed by the Grammy Awards in February and the Academy Awards in March. For VFX artists, the real calendar event is January 13, when nominations for the Visual Effects Society Awards are announced across 25 categories…
Foundry has quietly dropped one of the most consequential updates to Nuke in years. Nuke 17.0 is now in open beta, and for the first time, Gaussian Splats are a native citizen inside the compositor. On paper, it sounds technical. In practice, it signals a deeper shift in how environments, volumetric captures, and reconstructed worlds…
The race for Best Visual Effects at the 98th Academy Awards is officially underway.Variety has released this year’s list of 20 contenders, highlighting some of the biggest blockbusters, long-awaited sequels, and a few surprising dark horses that impressed voters with their technical craft. This year’s finalists span sci-fi epics, animation hybrids, franchise revivals, and genre…
For more than two decades, Trixter has been one of Germany’s most recognizable VFX names. Founded in 1998 in Munich, the studio built a reputation for character work, creature animation, and superhero-heavy sequences. Their portfolio grew across major Hollywood titles, including Avengers: Age of Ultron, Captain Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Shang Chi,…
Foundry has officially released the Nuke 17 Open Beta, marking another step in their ongoing journey toward a USD-based workflow something they’ve been teasing since Nuke 14. The new version get refinements, better 3D organization,Some of the key highlights include: Improved USD and Scene Graph supportGeo stacking, path masking, and pruning New snapping and constraint…
