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0 52 0 Comment on Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth
Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

Marble x Nuke — One Artist Just Put Fei-Fei Li’s World Model Three Keystrokes From Every Compositor on Earth

One person, a weekend, and an MIT licence just did something Foundry, Autodesk and every VFX vendor…

Issanou 29 July 2026
0 56 0 Comment on Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same
Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Blender Just Shipped an Official MCP Server — And at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA Read Out the List of Every DCC That Did the Same

Two months ago the Blender Foundation drew a line in the sand: no generative AI in the…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 38 0 Comment on ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU
ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU

ABot-World — Alibaba’s Maps Division Just Open-Sourced an Hour-Long Explorable World Model That Runs on One Desktop GPU

A 0.5-billion-parameter model. One RTX 5090. And a world you can walk through for over an hour…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 54 0 Comment on The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU
The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU

The Algerian Architect Who Put Gaussian Splats in Rhino — On a Laptop With No GPU

An architect in Algeria, working on a laptop he says can’t even run a GPU, just shipped…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 49 0 Comment on SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock
SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock

SkinTokens — Tsinghua and VAST Just Turned Rigging Into a Language, and the Dead-Statue Era of AI 3D Is on the Clock

AI can now dream up a 3D character from a single sentence in seconds. Then it hands…

Issanou 27 July 2026
0 88 0 Comment on YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry
YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry

YaGS — Yandex Just Open-Sourced the Unreal Plugin That Finally Makes Gaussian Splats Occlude Your Geometry

Here is the sentence nobody had on their 2026 bingo card: Yandex just open-sourced a production-grade Gaussian…

Issanou 16 July 2026
0 86 0 Comment on WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame
WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame

WorldDirector — The First World Model You Direct Like a Film Set, and It Actually Remembers What Left the Frame

Every world model the Lab has covered this year answers the same question: can you generate a…

Issanou 16 July 2026
0 151 21 Comments on Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip
Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip

Seedance 2.5 — ByteDance Says the Stitching Era Is Over: One Unbroken 30-Second AI Video Shot, 50 References, and Edits That Don’t Nuke the Whole Clip

Every AI video model so far has been living a small lie. You ask for a 20-second…

Issanou 16 July 2026
0 206 0 Comment on ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates
ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates

ARDY — NVIDIA Just Gave Human Motion AI a Joystick: Real-Time, Promptable Character Animation You Steer While It Generates

For years, text-to-motion AI has been a beautiful lie for anyone building interactive worlds. You type a…

Issanou 12 July 2026
0 82 0 Comment on LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent
LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent

LichtFeld Studio — The Free Splat Studio That Trains, Edits and Renders Locally Just Went All-Vulkan, and Handed the Keys to an AI Agent

We have covered a dozen ways to get a Gaussian splat into your DCC of choice —…

Issanou 12 July 2026