Kinetix launches Kinetix Studio 2.0
Free browser-based AI mocap platform now supports animation style transfer and motion blending.
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
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Foundry releases Nuke 14.0
Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Sneak peek: Adobe's Project Artistic Scenes
Neat new AI tech shown at Adobe Sneaks 2022 transfers the style of a 2D image to an entire 3D scene.
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Nvidia's free Canvas app turns doodles into matte paintings
Updated: Canvas 1.2 update adds new style variations system to fine tune the look of generated images.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Corel ships Painter Essentials 8
Sub-$50 natural media painting software gets support for Apple's M1 chips, more AI-based auto-paint options, new colour harmonies.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.0
See Photoshop's new AI-based tools: automated sky replacement, Content-Aware Tracing, and eight eye-catching new 'Neural Filters'.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Free tool EbSynth turns video into hand-painted animation
Now in beta: neat app applies the look of hand-painted stills to video. Now exports direct to After Effects.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Corel ships Painter 2021
Check out the new features in Corel's natural media painting package, including new AI-based preset art styles and Clone Tinting.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Unity acquires Artomatix
AI-driven tools developer's material-processing tech to be integrated in Unity, but will remain available for other game engines.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2020
Corel ships Painter Essentials 7
Sub-$50 digital painting app gets new AI-based tools to give source photos the look of drawings or oil, watercolor or acrylic paintings.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Research
New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Adobe releases Character Animator CC 2.0
New update adds AI-driven tool for transferring the art style of any source image to your animation.
Monday, October 15th, 2018