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Fabian Strube Kiosk 2.0 – The Free Asset Manager every 3D Artists needs

https://kiosk-library.com/get/ Key Features of Kiosk Library: 100% Local Secure: Your assets never leave your machine or local network. Fast and completely private. Deep DCC Integrations: Deep, native plugins for Blender, Houdini, Maya, and Cinema 4D. OpenPBR Detection (New in 2.0): Kiosk automatically detects texture variants (Base Color, Roughness, Normal, Metalness) and wires up the material…

Tomonori Taniguchi – AI-Gen 6K 3D 360° VR Experiences

https://www.youtube.com/@T-Photoworks How to Watch: Best Experience : Use a high-quality VR headset (e.g., Meta Quest 3, Vive Pro, Index) at maximum resolution to enjoy the full stereoscopic 3D effect and extreme 6K detail. Desktop : View with Chrome or Firefox for full 360 navigation using your mouse. Mobile : Use the YouTube app for an interactive panoramic view.

ONYX AI MATTE V3.3.0 – Auto-Tracking Matte Extraction powered by SAM3 for DaVinci Resolve, Nuke and Fusion

https://onyxofx.com/ What s new in v3.0 ⚡ ~2x FasterSame footage, half the processing time. 🧩 Unified Pipeline — all prompts in ONE sceneNo more switching between separate pipeline modes. Bbox, Point, Text, and Mask prompts now coexist in a single scene — mix and match freely. 🔢 Up to 16 Objects per NodeTrack up to 16 objects simultaneously in one node [ ]

Foundry Nuke Beginner Series | CAMERA PROJECTION FOR CLEANUP | EP-16 | VFX VIBE

KitBash Acquires Sketchfab and ArtStation

https://kitbash3d.com/pages/kitbash-acquires-sketchfab-and-artstation-kitbash3d Whether you’re building games, VFX, film, television, commercials, visualization, or emerging media, our goal is to help you create better work, faster.We know that building worlds is only one part of your process, though. You also need places to find inspiration, share your work, and connect with the community. That’s…

Mark Freiburger – How I shot like Spielberg on a low Budget

Foundry Hiero – Powerful multi-shot management, conform, editorial and review Nuke’s sidekick toolset

https://www.foundry.com/products/nuke-family/hiero https://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/News/2026/DNEG-migrates-editorial-workflows-to-Foundry-s-H.aspx

BforArtist 5.2 – Free and open source Blender based UI

https://www.bforartists.de/ Why use Bforartists, and not Blender? Because the work on Bforartists GUI is streamlined, cleaner, organized, customizable, has consistent colored iconography, left aligned text, and many more details that make day to day work easier. Bforartists also is 100% compatible with Blender. The files are transferable.Give it a whirl and see! You’ve got nothing to loose. For a…

Shamel Studio – New production scheduling and budgeting software

https://www.shamelstudio.com/ https://stagerunner.net/after-nearly-40-years-movie-magic-has-a-challenger/

MiniMax H3 – An Open MultiModel Breaking the Boundaries Between Tasks and Modalities

https://www.minimax.io/blog/minimax-h3 https://huggingface.co/MiniMaxAI/MiniMax-H3 A brief overview of H3 s pretraining paradigm Data and Tasks Text-to-image Text-to-video With jointly generated audio, all audio output is native stereo Native multi-shot modeling Text-to-audio No separation between voice, sound effects, and music — all jointly modeled Generalized reference and editing…

ByteDance Seedance 2.5 – A next-generation audio-video joint generation multi model, built for 30-second storytelling with precise reference control and powerful editing capabilities.

https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedance2_5 https://higgsfield.ai/?fpr=dankieft fp_sid=sd25

Adding Native Gaussian Splatting Support to ThreeJS

https://ben3d.ca/blog/gaussian-splatting-for-threejs https://rawcdn.githack.com/mrdoob/three.js/5b8fcba16c8e0ab1e3745cd2c8185fe527998a36/examples/webgpu_gaussian_splatting.html

Cavalry – Motion Design reinvented. Free professional, real-time animation software

https://cavalry.studio/en/

Maxon Autograph – Free 2D/3D USD-based motion graphics, compositing and VFX software

https://www.maxon.net/en/autograph

Mike Gaynor’s Caddis – A new way to work in motion design

https://www.caddis.app/ Timeline + Node Graph Animate on a layer timeline and build looks in a node graph — two views of the same composition, switch fluidly between them. GPU-Accelerated Engine A Rust + wgpu engine runs effects, blends, transforms, and fields on the GPU across Metal, Vulkan, and D3D12. 130+ Composable Nodes Shapes, fields, points, text, color, time, tracking, and [ ]

Pixel-Artistry 3DGenStudio – The open source AI-powered 3D mesh production layer

https://pixel-artistry.com/3DGenStudio https://github.com/visualbruno/3DGenStudio

Flashforge Creator 5 Pro upgrade- The $849 Tool Changer Everyone Needs To See

https://www.flashforge.com/products/flashforge-creator-5-pro https://www.flashforge.com/products/flashforge-creator-5

Blender added the bevel node to geometry nodes

Prusa INDX 8-Tool upgrade with 8 print heads – This Obsoleted Every Other 3D Printer

https://www.prusa3d.com/en/product/indx-conversion-kit-8-toolhead/ https://www.prusa3d.com/p/bondtech-indx/

Install and Use TrueDepth V3 Addon for Blender 5+ – Turn ANY image into 3D Geometry

https://superhivemarket.com/products/truedepth?ref=835

Risks of Using Third-Party AI Services

Third-Party AI Services Risk Register IDRiskDescriptionPotential ImpactSuggested MitigationR-01Model availabilityThe provider may remove, replace, restrict, or deprecate models and model versions without sufficient notice.Production workflows may fail, and historical outputs may no longer be reproducible.Maintain an approved model inventory, monitor deprecation notices, archive model metadata, and…

FRANK FRAZETTA – The Godfather of Fantasy Art, vol.1, The Essentials

LeoMoon LightStudio – A modern open source lighting system for Blender 5

For years, product lighting workflows have often depended on commercial tools like HDR Light Studio. Those tools are excellent, but not every artist, freelancer, student, or small studio can justify adding another paid package to their pipeline.That is why I’m excited about where LeoMoon LightStudio is heading. The latest versions bring a more complete product-lighting workflow directly inside…

A Face Only A Mother Could Love – A Short-Film by Robert Gaudette

Marlin-2B – A tiny VLM to extract structured information from videos

https://huggingface.co/NemoStation/Marlin-2B Marlin is a 2B video VLM tuned for the two questions developers actually like ask their videos: what is happening, and when? It produces structured Scene + Event captions with second-precise timestamps, and resolves natural-language queries to span-grounded (start, end) ranges in the video. At 2B params, it is the strongest open model in its weight…

CGLounge Glass – Photographic Lens System

https://cglounge.studio/assets/glass Make CG look photographed in Nuke 14.1 to 17.0, on Windows, Linux and Mac. Nine lens modules from one node: distortion, defocus, flare, sensor, grain. Free tier and Nuke Indie build. Why it s different Real lens artifacts are not independent. Stop the aperture down and the bokeh, vignette, aberrations, and flare all shift together. Swap a spherical prime for […

Podman, Docker and Kubernetes clusters

Podman vs Docker https://podman.io/ https://medium.com/@omaisafzal225/understanding-podman-a-comprehensive-guide-to-dockers-alternative-678139e7aaeb RedHat Podman and Docker are both open-source tools designed to build, run, and manage Open Container Initiative (OCI) containers, but they use radically different architectural designs under the hood. While Docker relies on a central background…

LATO.2 – Factorized 3D Mesh Generation with Vertex and Topology Flow

https://github.com/LoHhhha/LATO.2 LATO.2 factorizes mesh generation into a vertex flow (V-Flow) that generates vertex positions under a controllable vertex count, and a topology flow (T-Flow) that predicts connectivity from the realized vertices. This decomposition unlocks: High-quality generation (image bottom left). Part-wise generation (image bottom middle). Topology-adaptive editing (image…

Anthropic – Introducing Claude Opus 5

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 Claude Opus 5 is available today. It’s a thoughtful and proactive model that comes close to the frontier intelligence of Claude Fable 5 at half the price. On coding and knowledge work evaluations like Frontier-Bench and GDPval-AA, Opus 5 is the new state-of-the-art, though it remains behind Mythos 5 on cybersecurity tasks. Opus 5 is designed to be used…

Unitree Super Athlete AS2-W – A next-generation quadruped robot engineered for versatility, stability, and performance

CAVE Academy v002 promotion – Full access to all categories for $2 a month!

https://caveacademy.com/product/cave-community-membership/ CAVE Academy is looking to make some major changes.For CAVE v002, they are planning to wrap everything we do around the theme of Community and make all their offerings available for one small fee of £2/month.You can think of it as a Patreon-style approach where you ll get: All of their current and upcoming courses. Join their tech talk…

unid-video.github.io Unified Video Dense Prediction from Disjoint Data – Extracting normals, reflectance, shading, segmentation from videos

https://unid-video.github.io/ https://github.com/YihongSun/UniD Official PyTorch implementation for the ECCV 2026 paper: Unified Video Dense Prediction from Disjoint Data .

Black Forest Labs Flux 3 – One multi-modal model for Image, Video, Audio and Action-Prediction

Introducing FLUX 3.One multi-modal model for Image, Video, Audio and Action-Prediction. Creations are truer to life in every kind of style.FLUX 3 Video is now available in early access (link below).Jointly trained in one unified architecture, our model can be extended to… pic.twitter.com/voQ5iUJJZY Black Forest Labs (@bfl_ai) July 23, 2026 Over the next few weeks and months, we’ll make the [ ]