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NVIDIA used its SIGGRAPH announcements to line up a wave of creative software behind Model Context Protocol (MCP), the open standard that lets an AI agent read an application
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
This episode of Denoised starts with a simple test that lands somewhere bigger: feeding a handful of cell-phone photos to OpenAI's Codex and asking it to reconstruct a real building in Blender.
NVIDIA's Synthetic Video Detector Puts a Deepfake Score Inside Newsroom Workflows July 20, 2026 NVIDIA introduced the Synthetic Video Detector NIM microservice at SIGGRAPH, adding an AI-assisted signal that flags whether a video clip contains synthetic content. It is part of
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
PIXERA is hosting a one-day educational summit on HDR and digital color at its Santa Monica studio on Friday, July 24. Titled HDR & Digital Color
Alibaba's Qwen team has opened preview access to Qwen3.8-Max , a 2.4-trillion-parameter model the company describes as its most capable system yet, with open weig
Google has open-sourced GNM Head , a parametric 3D statistical model of the human head that gives artists slider-level control over facial identity and expression. The release is th
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 is a 2.8-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with a 1-million-token context window and native multimodal input. The important detail for produc
NVIDIA's ARDY Generates Controllable Human Motion in Real Time, and Releases the Code and Weights July 17, 2026 NVIDIA's Spatial Intelligence Lab published ARDY , a framework that generates 3D human motion in real time from text prompts a user can change while the charact
Disney is putting digital creators on a Hollywood red carpet and opening its Burbank studio lot for a new two-day gathering called Created in LA. The event, which Disney describes as its fi
Netflix disclosed that generative AI workflows were used in roughly 300 of its titles in 2026, the clearest number the company has put on its production-side AI use so far. The figure app
Foundry launched Griptape Enterprise, a new license tier of its Griptape AI workflow orchestration platform built to run generative pipelines entirely inside a studio'
LTX is spinning off from Lightricks to operate as an independent company built around open "world models," AI systems designed to understand and simulate physical and virt
Netflix's Production Technology Resources channel released a technical deep dive on the ACES Metadata File , the sidecar file that carries a color pipeline from the set thro
Orbital Studios has relocated its headquarters and research lab to Television City, the 73-year-old former CBS lot in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The virtual product
Epic Games has added native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Unreal Engine 5.8, letting external AI agents operate the Unreal Editor directly. According to Epic's documentation , the
Aximmetry's MCP Server Lets AI Agents Build Virtual Production Scenes May 18, 2026 Aximmetry showed an upcoming MCP server at NAB that lets any AI agent operate its virtual production software through natural language. The company is targeting a summer release alongside the n
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
Disney's First Scooter Audio-Animatronic Was Motion-Captured From the Actual Muppet May 16, 2026 Walt Disney Imagineering revealed the first-ever Audio-Animatronic figure of Scooter, built by motion-capturing the actual Muppet puppet to replicate his performance details, acco
AV Stumpfl is bringing its PIXERA media-server community to Nashville for Base Camp 2026 , a three-day user gathering running October 26 to 28, 2026. The company fr
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
Sony issued a clarification about the AI Camera Assistant feature on its Xperia 1 VIII flagship phone, one day after its launch announcement drew thousands of negative replies from photographe
We teamed up with VPX Lab to try to recreate the car chase from One Battle After Another using an iPhone. The question: how far can accessible gear and emer
At the 24th Annual VES Awards, we asked artists, supervisors, producers, and creators one question: how are you actually using AI right now? The answers cut across the full spectrum, fr
Joey breaks down a field test: shoot in a remote desert, upload via Starlink , and lean on Blackmagic Cloud and Eddie AI to turn footage into a finished cut in under 24 hours. He also cover handling long conti
'I tried to track down every location in the One Battle After Another car chase' October 06, 2025 Joey set out to do something many fans attempted with varying success: locate the real world places used to film the extended car chase in One Battle After Another . The chas
In this step-by-step guide, you'll learn how to take Blackmagic RAW multicam interview clips and turn them into a polished rough cut using Eddie AI — faster than you think. This workflow preserves you
'As Deep as the Grave' Trailer Premieres With AI-Generated Val Kilmer Performance April 17, 2026 The filmmakers behind "As Deep as the Grave" debuted a trailer at CinemaCon showing AI technology used to construct Val Kilmer's full performance, Variety report
Inside 'Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi': Doug Liman's $70M Hybrid AI Feature April 17, 2026 Doug Liman directed Bitcoin: Killing Satoshi , a $70 million feature film shot entirely on a custom gray-screen soundstage with AI-generated backgrounds and lighting, producer Acme A
Nolan Kearney from District Cinema walks us through processing the XGRIDS LiDAR scan outputs, reviewing the captured images and videos as we turn them into a 3D car model for our One Battle After Another i
Nolan Kearney from District Cinema shows us how to create a 3D model of a car using the XGRIDS LiDAR scanner, building assets for our One Battle After Another car-chase scene experiment shot
'House of David' Season 2 Used 253 AI-Generated Shots—Here's How They Did It October 16, 2025 At Amazon MGM Studios' Stage 15 in Culver City—home to North America's largest virtual production LED wall—director Jon Erwin stood before an audience of filmmakers a
'AI James Bond is Silicon Valley Tech A**hole Fantasy' How Platform Builders See AI Adoption in Film Industry at AFM November 14, 2025 "The idea that we'll just make new James Bond movies with Sean Connery is a fantasy of Silicon Valley tech assholes," says
Background animators become lead animators. First-year lawyers become partners. Production assistants become producers. But if AI eliminates those entry-leve
At the Zanuck Theater at Fox Studios, creators, studio executives, and technologists gathered for a Hollywood X event hosted by FBRC.ai and Fox Entertainment to address how AI is forcing s
Inside Door G's VP Playbook for Brands: LED Volumes, 2D Plates & Still Photography August 15, 2025 We sat down with Scott Maiocchi and Joe Kayata from Door G for a deep dive that covered the studio’s origin, their pragmatic approach to virtual production (VP), and some surpri
Massive Studios has generated over 4 million AI prompts in their quest to build one of Hollywood's first AI-native production companies . Co-founder
This week runs from the practical to the existential: a new image model that edits from annotations, Meta walking back an opt-out AI feature after public backlash, MCP arriving inside Unreal E
We got back from Google I/O with hands-on access to Omni, Google's new video world model, and we pitted it against Runway Aleph 2 on identical source footage. On the Denoised podcast, we break down what
This episode of Denoised pulls together two threads from AI on the Lot: studios committing real money to AI production pipelines, and a box office weekend where a $750,000 horror film outgrossed Th
The latest Denoised covers the AI tools and stories shaping mid-2026 production: an open-source pipeline that builds full 3D scenes from a single image, Netflix's new in-house GenAI
This Denoised covers the NAB tools that did not make our initial coverage and the wave of Claude integrations that landed across creative software. We walk through Lightcraft Spark
