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Category: Technology News
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AI’s Impact on VFX and Filmmaking, AI Is Rewriting VFX Rulebook 2026, and more.
AI’s Impact on VFX and Filmmaking this week: AI integration into VFX pipelines has moved from speculative R&D to operational reality in 2026, fundamentally; and Virtual production studios are integrating AI-generated environments…
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Virtual Production and LED Volume, Das szenische Portal RT, and more.
Virtual Production and LED Volume Stages this week: Andreas Resch has developed ‘Das szenische Portal RT,’ a prototype real-time hybrid stage system built in Unreal; and MZed’s new course ‘Virtual Production for Beginners,’ taught by…
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Simkhai is building an AI storefront for shoppers who don’t know what to search
Simkhai is launching a separate AI-powered storefront, Simkhai.ai, built on Swap’s agentic commerce platform.
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AI Integration in VFX & Filmmaking, AI Is Rewriting VFX Rulebook 2026, and more.
AI Integration in VFX & Filmmaking this week: AI integration into VFX pipelines has moved from experimental to operational in 2026, with concrete tools now; and AI integration into virtual production pipelines is accelerating, with…
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Virtual Production & Real-Time VFX, Virtual Production Beginners MZed, and more.
Virtual Production & Real-Time VFX this week: MZed’s new course ‘Virtual Production for Beginners,’ taught by Biro Florin of Masterwork Films, explicitly rejects; and Virtual production via LED volumes has matured from a high-end novelty…
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New Software Tools & Updates, Scene Auditor Pro targets Blender bloat, and more.
New Software Tools & Updates this week: Scene Auditor Pro, a $15 Blender add-on, introduces systematic dependency visualization and cleanup targeting; and Blackmagic Design has released Fusion Studio 21.
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Pluralistic: Trump’s fruitless search for a goreable ox (09 May 2026)
Hacker Community this week: Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic newsletter analyzes the political-economic bind facing the Trump administration: while; and A detailed teardown of a camera recovered from a downed Iranian Shahed-136 drone in…
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Roundup: VFX Tools & Talks, VES publishes on-set data guide, and more.
Industry Workflows, Guides, and Events this week: The Visual Effects Society has published the On-Set VFX Data Collection and Usage Guide, a standardized playbook for; and SIGGRAPH 2026’s initial Production Sessions lineup features…
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Roundup: Behind-the-Scenes VFX Breakdowns, RISE Fallout Destroys LA Politely, and more.
Behind-the-Scenes VFX Breakdowns this week: RISE VFX delivered 244 shots for Fallout Season 2, facing a significant scale increase over Season 1 with the same; and This matters for Visual Effects and CGI because it gives a concrete…
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Roundup: VFX Software Updates, InstaMAT and InstaLOD Go Native on Linux, and more.
New Software Releases and Updates this week: Abstract has released native Linux previews of its material authoring software InstaMAT and geometry optimization; and Abstract has released native Linux support for its InstaLOD and InstaMAT…