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pixelfx is an MIT-licensed open-source project featuring 244 game pixel effects generated entirely in code in real time — zero image assets, with web preview and Sprite Sheet export, plus a Claude Code Skill that lets the AI automatically iterate on effects.

Simulon introduces Reality-Aware Rendering on iPhone, letting users place neural assets via their phone, act out a scene, and have the app regenerate the take so assets react to actions, speech, and surroundings. An Android release is planned.

Following the closure of Tippett Studios, an anonymous donor has uploaded a free-to-browse digital archive of Phil Tippett's stop-motion and VFX work — including 90 key CD-ROM .ISO images — to the Internet Archive, preserving decades of animation history that might otherwise have been lost.

Ben Affleck, once skeptical that AI could produce meaningful creative work, built a VFX-grade AI film tool through fine-tuning open video models and sold it for $587M — a notable reversal on AI's role in creative production.

The essay discusses how Astra, an AI model, is a breakthrough for indie filmmakers by enabling professional-quality visual effects compositing with ease, overcoming limitations of previous generative tools.

Jernej Barbič, a computer science professor at USC, received a technical achievement Academy Award for Ziva VFX, a simulation software that enables realistic muscle, fat, and skin effects in over 60 movies.

AI is quietly becoming integral to Hollywood's VFX pipeline, with tools like Seedance 2.5 already outperforming classical methods for many shots, and the trend is expected to make AI-generated shots standard within three years.

VFX artist demonstrates how to use Uisato Studio's Kling Motion Control to transform an iPhone dance video into a multi-angle robotic aesthetic piece, showcasing low-budget motion capture techniques.

GamerForge is an AI-powered tool that transforms game, CGI, and VFX assets, allowing creators to enhance and edit digital assets efficiently.

Stability AI released Stable Audio 3 with open source variants for music and VFX, offering fast and high-quality audio generation.