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Higx Optics uses ray-traced virtual lenses for bokeh and optical effects across Nuke, After Effects and Resolve Studio. We compare the approach with ZEISS LensCore.

Colorboy gathers camera transforms, grading and film effects in one Resolve OFX. What happens inside it, and do you need it?

Cinema 4D 2026.4 adds a built-in MCP server, allowing AI assistants to operate native Cinema 4D tools while keeping scene data editable.

Browser-based Workflows Slate turns pipeline metadata into reusable burn-ins and slates for dailies, VFX pulls and delivery.

MechaPaint 2.0 combines PBR painting, physical-paint matching, image-derived geometry, local AI and engine-ready delivery in one 3D workflow.

Colormass offers free scanned materials for look development. The maps deserve a close look, and the licence deserves an even closer one.

Tripo P2.0 adds quad output, adjustable mesh budgets and local regeneration. A practical starting point for testing image-to-3D assets in your own pipeline.

Hair Bone Generator maps stylised Blender hair into connected deform-bone chains, with three guide methods and controls for spacing and root placement.

RailClone exposes its style graphs as XML, opening them to MaxScript automation, pipeline tools and, inevitably, LLM experiments.

Blackmagic Camera 3.5 gets inside iPhone 18 Pro hardware with variable-aperture control, Pro Video Storage and Cinematic recording.

SoftRAID 9 adds RAID 6 and RAID 6+ for directly attached storage, including third-party hardware, with one substantial macOS condition.

Beauty Box 6.5 adds AI masks for teeth and eye whites, a new local inference engine and improved face tracking across major finishing hosts.

Starting Pixel Live 2026 brings AI into virtual production, while keeping humans nearby for lighting, judgement and suspicious outputs.

Plugin Hub herds Blender’s proliferating add-on panels into one tidy tab, with optional menu and floating-window access.

Adobe has finished buying Topaz Labs. The apps stay standalone, while the AI heads deeper into Creative Cloud. Nobody panic. Yet.

Fenix Animator’s KeyFlow puts Maya animation chores into a customizable toolbar, from timing and mirroring to temporary rig controls.

Higgsfield’s Blender add-on generates editable scenes, meshes, rigs and media from the viewport, with cloud inference and credit billing.

DeckBridge turns Stream Deck into a Resolve-aware controller with live keymaps, page switching, Fairlight feedback and ten dedicated actions.

AJA squeezes SDI/IP conversion, sync, HDR, audio routing and ST 2110 into 1RU, giving post facilities a practical route from baseband to IP.

Blender 5.3 brings Gaussian Splats into the core app, with native import, Geometry Nodes access and rendering across Workbench, EEVEE and Cycles.

Rafael Spring ports COLMAP’s sparse reconstruction workflow into a local browser app, with WebGPU acceleration and standard COLMAP output.

Ehsan Bayat brings 16 Animo animation sliders to Blender for faster pose, timing and keyframe adjustments.

SuperSplat 3 rebuilds its Gaussian-splat editor on WebGPU, shrinking browser memory use and moving sorting, selection and more onto the GPU.

Pixel Lab packs 30 gemstones and 40+ ancient tree stumps into PLY Gaussian splats. The gems are cheap. Your workstation probably isn't.

Flair is closing in on its Unreal Engine debut while the Maya renderer adds Maya 2027 support and clears out several workflow gremlins.

Beeble doubles SwitchX shot length to 20 seconds, adds 2160p and 10-bit output, source-following camera motion and a draft-to-finish path.

Redshift 2026.9 adds Houdini 22 support, broader USD workflows and leaner render preparation, while clearing out a useful pile of production bugs.

Hardcraft turns CAD structure into controllable Blender topology, with quads where they help and triangles where they make more sense.

GhostPencilPro brings Grease Pencil-style drawing, animation, .ABR brushes and scripting into 3ds Max, without making Max users learn Blender.

Animo gathers 500+ Maya animation tools into one editor, adds direct reference media, hotkeys and six new sliders. Still beta. Still free.

FreePencil2 turns Blender geometry into editable line art with one setup button, compositor edge detection and manual paint fixes.

Max Ultra MCP gives AI assistants a local, tool-based route into live 3ds Max scenes, with scene inspection, MaxScript, viewport and render control.

Basefount adds automatic skinning and weight processing to Animcraft, plus NVIDIA Kimodo-based text-to-motion generation for character workflows.

ArmorPaint 1.0 swaps Haxe for C, trims memory use and adds local AI, UV tools, sculpting and broader interchange.

Vizibeat maps audio, MIDI and show-control signals into procedural Unreal Engine animation, with live performance and Sequencer workflows.

Datacolor adds standalone grey and white balance cards plus Photo and Video card decks, extending Spyder Checkr’s modular colour workflow.

The Kitbash3D Set "Paris" brings Haussmann blocks, landmarks, street props and a game-ready Unreal path. Your next city break may require 32 GB of RAM.

FilmLight explains why Baselight 8 adds mastering-focused audio tracks, a new linear-light grain model, Color Crosstalk, Color Correlation and ML-assisted Groups View.

Rafael Maier explains why EditingTools.io bets on small tools, strict metadata, offline workflows and human support for modern postproduction.

A free Blender compositor node creates patterned-glass distortion from grayscale textures, with masking and five supplied patterns.

Avid opens supported third-party Shared Projects in Enterprise, closes old NEXIS emulation in 2026.8 and adds multicam transcript automation.

The OBSBOT Meet Flip is tiny, genuinely portable and physically private. Add very good 4K video and surprisingly mature software, and this may be the travel webcam we have been waiting for.

CEP panels still run, but their comfortable retirement is approaching. Jim Tierney explains what UXP migration really costs.

Avid and FilmLight want Baselight colour closer to the Media Composer timeline, with fewer handoffs from dailies through finishing.

Premiere gains in-timeline generation while After Effects turns plain English into native project work. Adobe’s bigger shift is the interface itself.

Resolve 21.1 brings MCP, overdue Inspector presets, deeper Fusion tools and a Python move that turns Studio into an automation heavyweight.

Audacity 4 replaces old tool modes with contextual editing, clip grouping, ripple commands and a Qt UI while keeping its free desktop role.