Category: AI

Toronto company is built around original IP, with 'The Little Cloud Thief' in development for both feature and episodic; Gaudette's 8-minute short took the $50K Grand Prix at this year's Runway AI Festival.

Extensive new feature release lays groundwork for expanded Maya and DCC integrations, AI-assisted scene construction and agent-driven directing.

Latest version of the leading rendering system adds final-frame, real-time rendering in supported DCC viewports, Gaussian Splat relighting, expanded Chaos Arena tools for virtual production, faster CPU and GPU rendering, and broader hardware and platform support.

Premiering at SIGGRAPH 2026, the new 15-minute animated short, a historical drama rooted in Central Asian folklore, was created by a team of 12 in 2 weeks on the Higgsfield platform powered by NVIDIA.

Tech giant’s SIGGRAPH 2026 announcements of new animation and VFX workflow capabilities include MotionMaker Bring Your Own Data in Maya, 3D Gaussian Splats in 3ds Max, Review in Flow Production Tracking and real-time Arnold viewport rendering in Maya.

Available for Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio and Nuke Indie, the tool acts as a specialized roto assistant that moves and deforms splines from initial input frames; artists can refine generated shapes, lock splines and keep workflows inside Nuke’s existing Roto node.

New tier adds studio-controlled licensing, project management and governance tools for high-end media production, giving pipeline supervisors control over which AI models artists use; studios can run workflows on-premises or in private cloud infrastructure to keep sensitive IP, prompts and training data inside the facility.

The company’s Research and Engineering leaders Neil Ashton, Ming-Yu Liu and Edward Liu will talk on advances in neural rendering, world models and AI-driven simulation next Monday, July 20; conference runs July 19-23 in Los Angeles.

New Spike Lee short takes top prize; ‘Beyond Words’ and ‘18 Months’ also awarded; Production Sessions lineup to feature Wētā FX, Lightstorm, NASA, Pixar, ILM, and Google DeepMind.

Pair will work closely with executive creative director Adam Crocker in shaping the company’s creative offerings and expansion.