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JangaFX llluGen – A node-based visual effects software designed specifically for video games
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Finn Jager – From HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) iPhone to a Multichannel EXR
Finn Jäger has spent some time in making a sleeker tool for all you VFX nerds out there, it takes a HEIC iPhone still and exports a Multichannel EXR – the cool thing is it also converts it to acesCG and it merges the SDR base image with the gain map according to apples math hdr_rgb = sdr_rgb * (1.0 + (headroom – 1.0) * gainmap)
https://github.com/finnschi/heic-shenanigans
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FramePack – Packing Input Frame Context in Next-Frame Prediction Models for Offline Video Generation With Low Resource Requirements
https://lllyasviel.github.io/frame_pack_gitpage/
- Diffuse thousands of frames at full fps-30 with 13B models using 6GB laptop GPU memory.
- Finetune 13B video model at batch size 64 on a single 8xA100/H100 node for personal/lab experiments.
- Personal RTX 4090 generates at speed 2.5 seconds/frame (unoptimized) or 1.5 seconds/frame (teacache).
- No timestep distillation.
- Video diffusion, but feels like image diffusion.
Image-to-5-Seconds (30fps, 150 frames)
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Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve 20
A major new update which includes more than 100 new features including powerful AI tools designed to assist you with all stages of your workflow. Use AI IntelliScript to create timelines based on a text script, AI Animated Subtitles to animate words as they are spoken, and AI Multicam SmartSwitch to create a timeline with camera angles based on speaker detection. The cut and edit pages also include a dedicated keyframe editor and voiceover palettes, and AI Fairlight IntelliCut can remove silence and checkerboard dialogue between speakers. In Fusion, explore advanced multi layer compositing workflows. The Color Warper now includes Chroma Warp, and the Magic Mask and Depth Map have huge updates.
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
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ZAppLink – a plugin that allows you to seamlessly integrate your favorite image editing software — such as Adobe Photoshop — into your ZBrush workflow
While in ZBrush, call up your image editing package and use it to modify the active ZBrush document or tool, then go straight back into ZBrush.
ZAppLink can work on different saved points of view for your model. What you paint in your image editor is then projected to the model’s PolyPaint or texture for more creative freedom.
With ZAppLink you can combine ZBrush’s powerful capabilities with all the painting power of the PSD-capable 2D editor of your choice, making it easy to create stunning textures.
ZAppLink features
- Send your document view to the PSD file editor of your choice for texture creation and modification: Photoshop, Gimp and more!
- Projections in orthogonal or perspective mode.
- Multiple view support: With a single click, send your front, back, left, right, top, bottom and two custom views in dedicated layers to your 2D editor. When your painting is done, automatically reproject all the views back in ZBrush!
- Create character sheets based on your saved views with a single click.
- ZAppLink works with PolyPaint, Textures based on UV’s and canvas pixols.
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SwarmUI.net – A free, open source, modular AI image generation Web-User-Interface
https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI
A Modular AI Image Generation Web-User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility. Supports AI image models (Stable Diffusion, Flux, etc.), and AI video models (LTX-V, Hunyuan Video, Cosmos, Wan, etc.), with plans to support eg audio and more in the future.
SwarmUI by default runs entirely locally on your own computer. It does not collect any data from you.
SwarmUI is 100% Free-and-Open-Source software, under the MIT License. You can do whatever you want with it.
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Lumina-mGPT 2.0 – Stand-alone Autoregressive Image Modeling
A stand-alone, decoder-only autoregressive model, trained from scratch, that unifies a broad spectrum of image generation tasks, including text-to-image generation, image pair generation, subject-driven generation, multi-turn image editing, controllable generation, and dense prediction.
https://github.com/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-mGPT-2.0
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PlayBook3D – Creative controls for all media formats
Playbook3d.com is a diffusion-based render engine that reduces the time to final image with AI. It is accessible via web editor and API with support for scene segmentation and re-lighting, integration with production pipelines and frame-to-frame consistency for image, video, and real-time 3D formats.
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GIMP 3.0 review – 20 years on from 2.0, has GIMP kept up with the times?
https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-3.0.html
Highlights
- Need to tweak a filter you applied hours ago? New in GIMP 3.0 is non-destructive editing for most commonly-used filters. See the changes in real time with on-canvas preview.
- Exchange files with more applications, including BC7 DDS files as well as better PSD export and many new formats.
- Don’t know how big to make your drawing? Simply set your paint tool to expand layers automatically as needed.
- Making pro-quality text got easier, too. Style your text, apply outlines, shadows, bevels, and more, and you can still edit your text, change font and size, and even tweak the style settings.
- Organizing your layers has become much easier with the ability to select multiple items at once, move them or transform them all together!
- Color Management was again improved, as our long-term project to make GIMP an advanced image editor for all usages.
- Updated graphical toolkit (GTK3) for modern desktop usage.
- New Wilber logo!
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WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a feature of the Windows operating system that enables you to run a Linux file system, along with Linux command-line tools and GUI apps, directly on Windows, alongside your traditional Windows desktop and apps.
https://ubuntu.com/desktop/wsl
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The VFX Reference Platform
The VFX Reference Platform is a set of tool and library versions to be used as a common target platform for building software for the VFX industry. Its purpose is to minimise incompatibilities between different software packages, ease the support burden for integrated pipelines and encourage further adoption of Linux by both studios and software vendors. The Reference Platform is updated annually by a group of software vendors in collaboration with the Visual Effects Society Technology Committee.
Each annual reference platform is designated by the calendar year in which major product releases should be targeting that particular reference.
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Nvidia CUDA Toolkit – a development environment for creating high-performance, GPU-accelerated applications
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-toolkit
With it, you can develop, optimize, and deploy your applications on GPU-accelerated embedded systems, desktop workstations, enterprise data centers, cloud-based platforms, and supercomputers. The toolkit includes GPU-accelerated libraries, debugging and optimization tools, a C/C++ compiler, and a runtime library.
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Conda – an open source management system for installing multiple versions of software packages and their dependencies into a virtual environment
https://anaconda.org/anaconda/conda
https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/getting-started.html
NOTE The company recently changed their TOS and this service now incurs into costs for teams above a threshold.
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Fal Video Studio – The first open-source AI toolkit for video editing
https://github.com/fal-ai-community/video-starter-kit
https://fal-video-studio.vercel.app
- 🎬 Browser-Native Video Processing: Seamless video handling and composition in the browser
- 🤖 AI Model Integration: Direct access to state-of-the-art video models through fal.ai
- Minimax for video generation
- Hunyuan for visual synthesis
- LTX for video manipulation
- 🎵 Advanced Media Capabilities:
- Multi-clip video composition
- Audio track integration
- Voiceover support
- Extended video duration handling
- 🛠️ Developer Utilities:
- Metadata encoding
- Video processing pipeline
- Ready-to-use UI components
- TypeScript support
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Invoke.com – The Gen AI Platform for Pro Studios
Invoke is a powerful, secure, and easy-to-deploy generative AI platform for professional studios to create visual media. Train models on your intellectual property, control every aspect of the production process, and maintain complete ownership of your data, in perpetuity.
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Jacob Bartlett – Apple is Killing Swift
https://blog.jacobstechtavern.com/p/apple-is-killing-swift
Jacob Bartlett argues that Swift, once envisioned as a simple and composable programming language by its creator Chris Lattner, has become overly complex due to Apple’s governance. Bartlett highlights that Swift now contains 217 reserved keywords, deviating from its original goal of simplicity. He contrasts Swift’s governance model, where Apple serves as the project lead and arbiter, with other languages like Python and Rust, which have more community-driven or balanced governance structures. Bartlett suggests that Apple’s control has led to Swift’s current state, moving away from Lattner’s initial vision.
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