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Lightricks released open weights for LTX-2.5, its video and audio generation model, so studios can train LoRAs on their own characters, settings and visual styles. Productions can fine-tune and self-host the model on…
OLM, the Japanese animation group behind the Pokémon anime, has developed an AI coloring tool that learns a show's line shapes and color palette from three frames an artist paints by hand, Variety reports. The system…
ComfyUI posted a demo on X in which a 3D blockout built in Blender drives the camera moves of an AI-generated video, timed to a music track. The camera path is set in a 3D scene first, and ComfyUI generates the final…
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…
LTX released its SDR to HDR model, which converts 8-bit SDR video into 16-bit HDR through open model weights or an API, according to a post on X. The output is scene-linear ACEScg EXR frames, so finished SDR footage c…
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…
Quixel is making its full Megascans library free on Fab and has updated the terms for all Quixel assets to allow training AI models on Megascans and Megaplants. The library's real-world scans become free to download a…
Selendis introduced Archon, a video foundation model built by Steve Aoki and industry experts that the company says turns raw footage into a finished edit in minutes, in a launch post on X. Archon powers personal AI v…
Pika released H3 Flex, an open-weight video model post-trained on MiniMax H3 that generates a 15-second clip with soundtrack in as little as 7 seconds, according to Pika's launch post. Pika built it for professional i…
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…
AFM's 2026 Market gains a dedicated 15,000-square-foot venue, The AFM House, that puts its AI and technology programming and a new theatrical-exhibition track under one roof for every registered badge holder. The indo…
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.
The American Society of Cinematographers is releasing StEM3-VP , a set of open reference assets built to evaluate and calibrate in-camera visual effects stages, and the material is joining the Ac
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
Arc Eye's Modular Mobile Stand Collapses the Dome Scanner Into a Flat-Pack Rig May 07, 2026 Arc Eye CEO Christian Cicerone walked us through the company's new modular mobile capture rig at NAB, a battery-powered alternative to the company's large dome scanner that bre
iodyne is building storage hardware designed to bring the security, performance, and reliability of data center infrastructure to fast-moving production environments. At NAB 2026, the com
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…
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 21.1.2 with an expanded Studio scripting API that lets scripts make timeline edits such as clip trims and silence removal, according to Digital Production. For pipeline devel…
DiffHDR, a research framework from Texas A&M University, Eyeline Labs, and Netflix, converts ordinary 8-bit low dynamic range video into HDR by generating plausible radiance in regions the original footage blew out or…
We toured NantStudios' El Segundo campus to see the Dynamic Volume System, an LED volume that trades one fixed wall for modular "wall pods" that snap into different shapes. The stage can become a long arc, a tight cur…
A Yoruba-language sci-fi feature reached completion using AI for roughly 80% of its visuals, with human direction and live-action performance covering the rest. The result is a finished, more-than-three-hour hybrid-AI…
Michael Caine's Licensed AI Voice Narrates ElevenLabs' 13-Hour 'Odyssey' Audiobook June 23, 2026 ElevenLabs has released a roughly 13-hour AI-generated audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey through its ElevenReader app, narrated by a licensed AI replica of Michael
Inside Door G's Brand-First Virtual Production Pipeline: AI in Pre and Post, Not on the Wall May 13, 2026 A virtual production studio that doubles as an AI workflow shop is pitching brands on the idea that a shoot should leave behind a reusable digital asset, not a torn-down
Aronofsky-Produced AI Hybrid Short 'Goodnight, Lamby' Premieres at Cannes Classics May 16, 2026 Goodnight, Lamby , a live-action and animation hybrid short film produced by Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup and built in part with Google DeepMind's generative AI t
Christy Anzelmo says AI has reversed the way visual effects artists work. Instead of building an image step by step and refining as they go, compositors now start from the result they want and trace back to the data o…
Caroline Ingeborn thinks the AI industry sold creatives the wrong idea when it pushed them to become prompt engineers. The chief operating officer of Luma argues that skilled filmmakers should talk to an agent the way…
AI models can take an image, generate an audio track, cut it into a video, and lip-sync a character in one automated pass. What they still can't do, according to Justine Moore, is judge whether any of it is good.
Ellenor Argyropoulos says she used to get death threats over her AI filmmaking. She says the reaction has flipped in the space of about a year and a half, and now studios and well-known directors are the ones who brin…
Generative AI has a talent shortage, and according to Matt Workman, the openings he sees ask for people who have worked in film production and know animation studio pipelines. The DP behind Cinematography Database, wh…
In this episode of Denoised, we work through a batch of incremental model updates and one licensing change from Epic. We test Pika's open-weight H3 Flex, compare how Google's Omni and ByteDance's Seedance treat cinema…
In this episode of Denoised, we test Google DeepMind's Genie 4 as a way to turn one location photo into a world you can walk through, then look at what AI is doing to voices, crews and game jams. We break down Block's…
Google's new Genie 4 can take a single real photo and spin it into a world you can walk through for two minutes. In this episode of Denoised, we tested it on Hearst Castle, a Culver City street and a Western saloon wi…
CorridorKey 2.0 is out, and its keyer now reads the whole clip instead of single frames to pull cleaner green screen keys. On Denoised, we break down how Corridor Crew retrained it, weigh the new Kling 4.0 model's per…
On Denoised, we ask what happens to the software business when AI can reverse engineer an app and rebuild it. We break down REA and a vibe-coded creative suite, debate where software companies keep their m…
