Walt Disney Animation Studios built a new production pipeline for its Lilo & Scratch short that lets hand-drawn animators, CG animators and background painters each work in their own medium, often inside the same fram…
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World Labs opened its Atlas world model to the public, adding two web apps, Viewfinder and Chisel, plus the API endpoints that power them, the company posted on X. Anyone can now build a 3D world from a single image,…
Blackmagic Design introduced the Blackmagic Ambisonic Microphone, a 108-capsule MEMS array with a built-in spatial encoder that records 7th-order ambisonics over a single USB-C cable. Capturing spatial audio for immer…
Google rolled out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash in Google Flow, extending continuous shots to 15 seconds for Google AI subscribers and introducing per-second pricing for Omni 1.2 Flash generations, according to the Flow team'…
Beeble launched SwitchX 3.0, a new version of its video-to-video AI model that adds dynamic backgrounds, up to four visual references and more precise prompt control, so artists can fill an empty street with moving cr…
Hexagon launched MANTIS by Leica Geosystems, a camera-mounted LiDAR system that records depth, camera movement and set geometry frame by frame while a cinema camera rolls. Its MANTIS Studio software turns each take in…
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Adobe added Relight to Photoshop Desktop, a generative AI feature that changes an image's lighting with up to three interactive lights you place and tune before generating, according to Adobe Research's MAX roundup. P…
Krea launched a beta of Krea Bots, AI agents that take on entire creative projects and adapt to a team's taste as people collaborate with them, per its announcement on X. Each bot handles one craft inside a shared tea…
World Labs opened its Atlas world model to the public, adding two web apps, Viewfinder and Chisel, plus the API endpoints that power them, the company posted on X. Anyone can now build a 3D world from a single image,…
Adobe debuted Project Live Set, an early research preview that lets editors change a subject, transform an environment, introduce a reference character or redirect the camera on an existing clip, then see the result i…
MiniMax released H3-Image, an open-weight model that generates 16-megapixel images and edits from up to 16 reference images, claiming 4K generations in 10 seconds in its launch post on X. High-resolution stills and re…
Disney has named Adobe its official AI innovation partner under a multiyear alliance, as Variety reported, giving Disney's creative teams early access to Firefly, Firefly Foundry, Premiere and Photoshop. Disney will a…
Dutch tech billionaire Steven Schuurman's startup TBellScout has acquired Flawless' TrueSync visual dubbing technology and DeepEditor performance-editing tool, according to Deadline, in a sale run by administrators of…
IATSE hired former Local 695 president Jillian Arnold as its first labor and technology intelligence officer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the role puts her inside contract negotiations, reskilling programs, a…
Goldenrod launched a real-time financial platform that categorizes a production's qualified spend as it lands and packages the final rebate submission for state film commissions, with coverage live in Texas, Louisiana…
Universal Music Group has licensed its artist catalog to ElevenLabs to build an AI-powered music platform where fans can remix and mash up official tracks and generate new interpretations of them. The licensing agreem…
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Dark Slope is building a new virtual production stage at North Shore Studios in Vancouver, launching in December with LED screens, tracking cameras and hardware taken from Pixomondo's shuttered stages, as The Hollywoo…
Foundry announced it is bringing Nuke Stage to macOS, adding Apple ProRes support plus genlock and synchronization across multiple Mac render nodes and iPhones, with early access expected in 2027. Foundry is aiming th…
Prime Video introduced Prime 360, an AI-powered virtual camera system that reconstructs recorded basketball action as a 3D scene and shows replays from angles its physical broadcast cameras can't capture. Virtual view…
Chris Nichols captured a crumbling, abandoned house in Northern California's Gold Rush country on an Alexa 35, rebuilt it as a relightable Gaussian splat, added a second story it never had, and set the whole thing on…
Volinga has added 4D Gaussian Splatting support to its Unreal Engine workflow, letting animated splat captures play back in real time inside the engine.
Hexagon launched MANTIS by Leica Geosystems, a camera-mounted LiDAR system that records depth, camera movement and set geometry frame by frame while a cinema camera rolls. Its MANTIS Studio software turns each take in…
Blackmagic Design introduced the Blackmagic Ambisonic Microphone, a 108-capsule MEMS array with a built-in spatial encoder that records 7th-order ambisonics over a single USB-C cable. Capturing spatial audio for immer…
NVIDIA is positioning DGX Station as the local hardware base for an open agent stack that can run large models, govern their behavior, and call simulation tools inside Blender. Announced at SIGGRAPH , the
Canon announced the EOS R6 V , the first full-frame body in its video-focused EOS V series. The camera pairs a 32.5MP sensor with 7K Open Gate capture, built-in ac
Sony announced the Alpha 7R VI , the sixth generation of its high-resolution full-frame mirrorless line. The camera moves the R series onto a 66.8MP fully-stacked back-illu
Beeble launched SwitchX 3.0, a new version of its video-to-video AI model that adds dynamic backgrounds, up to four visual references and more precise prompt control, so artists can fill an empty street with moving cr…
Blender 5.3 adds native 3D Gaussian splat support, so splats reconstructed from photos or video can be imported, processed with Geometry Nodes and rendered directly in Cycles or EEVEE. Reconstructed scenes now sit in…
Cinema 4D and ZBrush are getting Touch support on Apple's new MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display, and Cinema 4D adds Open in Spatial Preview, a feature for viewing scenes on Apple Vision Pro at real-world scale, acco…
A free Apple Creator Studio update for existing subscribers builds MotionVFX effects, rotoscoping, tracking and color grading tools into Final Cut Pro for Mac, and adds beta AI assistants to Logic Pro, Keynote, Pages…
Chromagraph Camera, a new $12.99 iPhone app released by Chromatic Applications and built by cinematographer Steve Yedlin with director Rian Johnson, replaces the phone's default image processing with color and texture…
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