The Huion Kamvas Slate 11 is what happens when a normal Android tablet quietly learns to draw. 90 Hz screen, a pen that behaves, and just enough “artist mode” to get you in trouble during meetings.

FMX just dropped its 2026 program: sci fi pipelines, generative video discipline, and cross studio creature mayhem included.

A 45-second robot brawl from 1897 (!) just walked back into frame, now stabilized and ready to steal your break. Georges Melies!

Warp decals onto gnarly meshes, add film grain in the viewport, and flatten layers fast: Painter 12 is all about fewer detours.

Hands are hard. LimbKit makes them fast, tweakable, and only slightly judgemental about your thumbs.

A student team, 12 months, one alien planet, and a ruthless asset diet. No One’s Light goes from “time travel and dragons” to “astronaut, one creature, and bioluminescence” because deadlines are the real final boss. Built in Blender (Geometry Nodes included), rigged with CloudRig, finished in Nuke,

Nobe OmniScope is stepping further onto the DIT cart. Time in Pixels has released Live Pack for OmniScope Pro, adding SDI Out, Pomfort Livegrade integration, multi-input monitoring, recording, snapshots, focus peaking and loudness metering. Less routing nonsense, more signal control.

OpenPBR just got a tiny single-header BSDF library that wants to compile everywhere your shaders live. And it is released by the Adobe Substnace team!

Wet fur without per-character shader surgery: Kranzler explains the less glamorous side of cute animals.

AdonisFX 2.0 ships Houdini SOP nodes, anisotropic muscles, triangle-to-triangle self-collisions, and enough rig utilities to keep your CFX team from inventing new swear words.

Upload your head, get pores back the same day: Texturing XYZ’s SKAP wants to be your new skin-detail shortcut.

575 shots, 500 artists, one evolving cordyceps. Cold Storage was not a quiet show or MPC Paris! https://digitalproduction.com/2026/03/09/mpcs-cold-storage/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Your bins are on fire. QuickSweep is the little shovel that claims it can put them out in one click.

Come for the multicam podcasts, stay for the group therapy about delivery specs.

A VFX school closes its doors and hands the keys to everyone.

Your final mix is not final anymore. CrumplePop now splits baked audio into stems.

Autodesk adds text to 3D generation to Flow Studio. The prototyping arms race continues.

tyFlow quietly drops a CUDA fluid solver and 20 Inferno ops. Particle artists may want to look twice.

Blender walkthroughs without keyframe pain. OmniStep 2.0 adds modules and animated collisions.

Two artists, six episodes, one nuclear blast. Fusion did not flinch.

Your spline just found more CPU cores.

Free Cinema 4D plugin makes splines grow like lichens or rivers. Try Differential Line Growth now.

RenderMan 27.2 lands with USD and XPU tweaks. Production artists, take notes.

Monday fuel for lookdev: Epic released a free Automotive Substrate Materials pack for UE 5.7.3+ with 280+ production-ready materials, templates, and a calibrated environment for Lumen and Path Tracer validation. Or did you finish that automotive job last week?

Candy for CG artists: The Grove 2.3 gives Blender and Houdini users new ways to grow and export realistic trees.

Free plugin, new animations, and a demo build. Your Frdiay just got a little ... bouncier.

Need a new background without reshooting? SwitchX says five minutes will do.

Describe your video in a sentence. Firefly builds a first cut. Welcome to Quick Cut beta.

USD goes native, splats go internal and ML scales up. Nuke 17.0 is not a small update.

The VES Awards handed out trophies and two big honours. Here is who walked away with what.

Five thousand materials, one Blend file, and no node spaghetti.

EU hosted video review with GDPR front and centre. Revcut enters a crowded approval market.

Plane Split rebuilt, stippling fixed, stitches animated. Druckli Tools V2 targets serious Cinema 4D node users.

Redshift 2026.3 lands with fewer crashes and saner displacement. Production artists may sleep slightly better.

Fjords, fish farms, fog and Dolby Vision. Kraken’s grade did not stay dry.

Quixel Mixer is officially discontinued. The final offline build is free, unsupported, and comes with optional 800+ free assets.

Joint based facial rigs in Maya for 40 dollars. Hive just became harder to ignore.

If your multicam timelines look like staircases, this free Resolve script might fix it.

Free, open source and iterating quietly. Here is what DJV 3 actually changed.

Scene Nodes in Cinema 4D, but practical. Midlet Dufts aims to make them usable today.

One hotkey, one LUT, no export dialogue. Nobe LutBake targets impatient colourists.

Corner pin in 3D. SynthEyes 2026 adds a Mocha-powered affine point tracker, and live GeoH previews for saner matchmove days.

Fire, felt and a vegetarian wolf. FMX 2026 is stacking its VFX and animation line-up.

Five Oscar nominated animation directors. One free Zoom panel. February 27. Register, log in, ask questions.

Blackmagic gives you official Resolve training for free – full topics and times are now out, register for the ones you need.

Foundry just bought an AI orchestration platform. This is about pipeline control, not chatbots.

Physics, AI and no cloud? Cascadeur CTO explains what the tools actually do and what they do not.

Polybrush is gone. Here comes another Unity mesh painting tool to fill the gap.

Neat Video 6.1 trims repetitive setup and extends OFX support. Your timeline may notice.

EIZO is previewing its FIRST (!!!) OLED ColorEdge monitor under development, aimed at 4K HDR workflows. The headline topic is luminance control: refined ABL behaviour, selectable dimming modes, and a status indicator so you can see when the monitor is managing brightness. Also: No AI-crap!