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In their latest work for premium EV marque Polestar, Swedish CG studio Brickland intros the company's Prime equipment package with a stripped down and slightly surreal Houdini-intensive treatment. Kajsa Blomberg and Ragnar Leuchovius, CDs at Brickland: For this project, we...
Motion graphicsThe free Blender animation contest opens October 15, with $1,500 in cash and $3,500 in rendering credits across nine awards.
Motion graphicsAnna Huijun Wang explores identity through a character’s transformation across cel animation, 2D Motion Design and 3D.
Motion graphicsWe're excited to announce that this year, Design will once again have its own dedicated space in our Calendar of Events! Like Advertising, Short Film and Music Video sections, Design and Design Craft now has its own slot in our...
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Offline and VFXThe rapid progress of 3D generative models has made 3D asset creation increasingly accessible. However, achieving intuitive, precise, and interactive user control, such as point-based drag editing, remains challenging. Existing 3D drag methods either rely on slow 2D diffusion priors...
Tech and papersMotion retargeting is a critical preprocessing step for transferring human motion data to humanoid robots. While existing methods are effective for single-character motions, interactions involving multiple characters and objects introduce additional contacts and spatial relationships that must be preserved. Retargeting...
Tech and papersFoundations
Pixels to path tracing, with free lessons and little demos to play with.
Modeling human reactions to spatial audio requires understanding both what is heard and where it comes from. Prior work generates motion offline from complete acoustic and spatial input sequences. Humans, however, react to sounds without knowing what they will hear...
Tech and papersDirector Jules Bourgès, who we first spotted in 2019 as one of the student co-directors of this Gobelins film , just released this hand-crafted animated fantasy for composer/producer Mistthom, produced thru WIZZ in Paris. Jules Bourgès: As with any fairy...
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Funding and launches in 3D, video and world models.
Behind the scenes of the stunning found footage opener, suburban street alleyway, the Vertigo Room and more. Roxel Creative has released its visual effects breakdown for Backrooms . Roxel is run by Calvin Romeyn, who was associate visual effects supervisor...
Offline and VFXBehind the motion base vehicle, the wire work and the incredible VFX work by DENG for The Bat in 'The Dark Knight Rises.' This episode is sponsored by ActionVFX . Get 20% off any ActionVFX course using the code B4ACOURSES...
Offline and VFXWhat's Changed Compute --stats stdDev in display space by @slimbuck in #351 Support zip64 archives larger than 4 GiB by @slimbuck in #352 Update all npm dependencies by @renovate [bot] in #350 Stop the worker pool respawning workers that can't...
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ACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 46, Issue 2 , Page 1-29, April 2027.
Tech and papersACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 46, Issue 2 , Page 1-26, April 2027.
Tech and papersACM Transactions on Graphics, Volume 46, Issue 2 , Page 1-15, April 2027.
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17 tools and standards, with versions and prices.
ComfyStreamerH3 Background Live video has been the talk of the town on AI twitter these days. From Fal's post trained H3 Max model that competed on quality and topped the charts last month, to the FastH3 model that optimized on...
AITo address a security issue related to reading maliciously crafted files, OpenUSD release 26.11 disables support for reading binary USD ( .usd / .usdc , “crate”) files older than version 0.4.0. The risk lies in the code that reads these...
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Chris Ullens turns the making of Diptyque’s wax Médicis vase into a miniature stop-motion workshop.
Motion graphicsIn today's digital landscape, a strong online presence is no longer optional – it's essential for success. Your website serves as the virtual storefront of your business, and first impressions matter. A poorly designed or outdated website can deter potential...
Real-timeAlexander Seaman, VFX Sup and Keith Roberts, Animation Director discuss Coyote vs. Acme: the physics are optional, but the falling piano is non-refundable.
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In today's digital landscape, a strong online presence is no longer optional – it's essential for success. Your website serves as the virtual storefront of your business, and first impressions matter. A poorly designed or outdated website can deter potential...
Real-timeMESA In development the past year has been the Mesa Gallium3D API implemented atop NVIDIA's CUDA driver API. Initially named "CLUDA" and now going by "NOCL", this Mesa code paired with Rusticl is working well for OpenCL atop the NVIDIA...
StandardsIn today's digital landscape, a strong online presence is no longer optional – it's essential for success. Your website serves as the virtual storefront of your business, and first impressions matter. A poorly designed or outdated website can deter potential...
Real-timeThanks for reading ComfyUI Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Gemini Nano Banana 2.1 is Google's image generation and editing model, and the successor to Nano Banana 2. It is built to balance price...
AIWhat's Changed Latest webgpu by @slimbuck in #349 Full Changelog : v3.9.2...v3.10.0
Radiance fieldsBlender Foundation announces its annual user survey, which aims to better understand: The user community demographics: age group, geography and professional background Common use cases and workflows Users' top priorities for further improvements How people connect with the Blender project...
Offline and VFXExpanding the audiences for Immersive AIV films with faithful 4K conversion.
Offline and VFXThe laws of physics plead the Fifth as we cross-examine Coyote vs. Acme on the latest VFXShow.
Offline and VFXWelcome to the seventh edition of Developer Spotlight, a series of blog articles where we talk to developers about how they use PlayCanvas and showcase the fantastic work they are doing on the web. Today, we are excited to be...
Radiance fieldsWhat's Changed Support LynnReal light Minimax-H3 vae by @kijai in #16657 Update embedded docs to v0.5.13 by @comfyui-wiki in #16618 Use higher quality defaults for Save Video encoding. by @comfyanonymous in #16663 feat: add DynamicGroup widget input by @jaeone94 in...
AIHi all, Internal QA testing has begun for the upcoming OpenUSD 26.11 release. The code being tested is available on a new v26.11 branch on GitHub under the v26.11-alpha label. This release we will be following the release branch proposal...
StandardsWhat's Changed Report --info from the file header when it's the only action by @slimbuck in #348 Full Changelog : v3.9.1...v3.9.2
Radiance fieldsChris got a request from Kay John Yim at HIVEalt26 to build a tool for gaussian splat segmentation. And Chris did exactly that. He will show you how to create a 2D Mask from your gaussian splats, that can then...
Offline and VFXWhat's Changed Check publish limits before uploading, and batch and retry upload requests by @slimbuck in #1066 Full Changelog : v3.5.1...v3.5.2
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