Studio TF1 Makes Major Animation Play With ‘Yes Chef,’ $25 Million Family Feature About an Animal Pastry Competition (EXCLUSIVE)

Studio TF1 has boarded “Yes Chef,” a $25 million family comedy set inside the high-pressure, fur-flying world of a televised ...
GitHub

DreamWaltz-G: Expressive 3D Gaussian Avatars from Skeleton-Guided 2D Diffusion

DreamWaltz-G is a novel learning framework for text-driven 3D avatar creation and expressive whole-body animation. Its core design lies in hybrid 3D Gaussian avatar representation and skeleton-guided ...
Digital Production

Here comes Houdini 22

Houdini 22 adds KineFX, APEX rigging, Gaussian Splats, Karma updates, Solaris work, MCP and UI improvements for production ...
GitHub

SuGaR: Surface-Aligned Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Mesh Reconstruction and High-Quality Mesh Rendering

We propose a method to allow precise and extremely fast mesh extraction from 3D Gaussian Splatting (SIGGRAPH 2023). Gaussian Splatting has recently become very popular as it yields realistic rendering ...