Blender 5.2 LTS: New Simulations and Eevee Improvements

Blender 5.2 LTS is available – with new simulations for Geometry Nodes, Eevee improvements, and texture cache for Cycles.
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3D artists are so blown away by Blender's latest update, it's hard to believe it's free software

New Geometry Nodes feel like magic.paradigm shift for free 3D modelling and animation ...
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How OpenUSD is smoothing the sim-to-reality gap for physical AI

Booz Allen CTO Bill Vass explains why the firm recently joined the Alliance for OpenUSD and its plans for a 3D repository. An ...
Cartoon Brew

Meet Wabie Velasquez, A Self-Taught Musician-Turned-Animator Building One of the Internet’s Favorite Indie Cartoon Series (EXCLUSIVE)

He may not be a household name yet, but musician-turned-self-trained animator Wabie Velasquez is creating something magical online. Leaning on a nostalgic yet entirely unique look, a familiar group-of ...

Blender wants to make its first feature-length movie and share the process for free

When Flow won its best Animation Oscar in 2025, director Gints Zilbalodis' predicted that Blender, the free animation software used to make the movie, would revolutionise filmmaking, allowing young ...
Opinion

Hong Kong AI-assisted Animation Movement: AMP4 and James L.J. Hung on Rebuilding the Pipeline, Not Replacing Artists

Hong Kong explores AI-assisted animation as a hybrid pipeline, with AMP4 and James L.J. Hung championing artist-led ...

The Corner of Hollywood That’s Most Susceptible to AI

Amid these developments, some artists in Hollywood are finding the job more and more unsustainable. A few of the ones I spoke ...
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AIReel: How to Turn Ideas Into Images and Videos in Seconds

Every great piece of visual content starts with an idea. Whether it's a marketing campaign, a YouTube video, a social media ...

I Compared Siri AI to Gemini on iPhone and There's a Clear Winner

Siri AI is trained on Gemini models, but the experience is still fundamentally Apple. How does the new Siri compare to the ...

China-backed AI tool behind fake Brad Pitt fight making Hollywood inroads

The former majority owner of TikTok has quietly continued to court filmmakers, independent artists and executives who are ...
AV Club

A surge of stop-motion animation tells off AI one frame at a time

Last month, The Book Of Life director Jorge Gutierrez announced that he was taking his latest animated project to Amazon for its inaugural AI program. Within days, Gutierrez walked back the ...

This new video editor lets Claude organize, generate, and edit right on your timeline

Palmier Pro is an open-source video editor that lets AI assistants like Claude organize, generate, and edit content directly inside a project timeline.