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Category: Visual Effects and CGI
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VFX September 7, 2026: Everything you need to know about the 2026 Venice Film Festival
The 83rd Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday on the Lido, running through Sept. 12, with Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ as the opening-night film.
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VFX August 10, 2026: Real-Time Location Digitalproduction, Maverick Render 2026 1 Adds
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Sonagraf Oy’s reconstruction of Tokyo’s Yoyogi Station for a film scene doubles as a rigorous case study in; and RandomControl’s Maverick Render 2026.
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VFX August 3, 2026: iRender High-Performance GPU Render Farm, How much Intelligence, LaCie 8big Pro5, and more
Visual Effects and CGI this week: iRender’s 2026 guide for freelance 3D artists argues that the cheapest rendering solution isn’t the lowest hourly; and Blackmagic’s DaVinci Resolve 21 ships a suite of on-device neural-network tools, with…
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VFX July 27, 2026: InstaMAT adds 2D UV painting
This matters for Visual Effects and CGI because it gives a concrete current signal to track: Table of Contents Show For those who don’t know the tool: InstaMAT is Abstract‘s material authoring, asset texturing and…
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VFX July 20, 2026: Tyler Perry Studios, Comp enters public alpha Digitalproduction
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Tyler Perry Studios is partnering with Synapse Virtual Production to build a new virtual production facility on its; and Tyler Perry Studios is converting an existing soundstage on its Atlanta campus into…
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Krokodove: a massive expansion of Fusion and Resolve’s creative arsenal
Visual Effects and CGI this week: Krokodove, a procedural node set for Fusion and DaVinci Resolve developed over 20 years by Raf Schoenmaekers, has; and Roji Research has opened beta registration for a render-oriented joint interface that…
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Behind the Scenes of VFX in Film and, Puppets previs prehistoric creatures, and more.
Behind the Scenes of VFX in Film and TV this week: The third series of Apple TV+’s Prehistoric Planet, focused on the Ice Age, required Framestore to deliver over 40; and Uber Eck’s Kayak ice cream spot used a hybrid pipeline: physical…
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VFX and Production Company News, Boris FX acquires Izotope, and more.
VFX and Production Company News this week: Boris FX, the developer of visual effects tools like Continuum, Sapphire, and Mocha Pro, has acquired iZotope, the; and Boris FX has acquired iZotope, the maker of RX audio repair, Ozone…
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VFX and CGI Software Updates, Inbibo releases Adonis 2 1 AdonisML, and more.
VFX and CGI Software Updates this week: Inbibo has released Adonis 2.1, splitting the soft-tissue simulation framework into a base edition (AdonisFX) and a; and Foundry has released Mari 8.
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To what extent is AI being used in movies and TV today?
Current professional use of artificial intelligence in film and television primarily involves automating tedious visual effects tasks rather than generating entire cinematic works.