Bela Beier

For those who don’t know the tool: 3DF Zephyr turns photographs and video into point clouds, meshes, textures and survey data for VFX, games, mapping, infrastructure and heritage work. 3DF Zephyr 9 adds Gaussian Splatting generation directly to 3Dflow’s photogrammetry application. Users can generate a splat inside Zephyr without transferring the reconstruction to a separate application. The new workflow accepts either a sparse point cloud or a mesh-derived dense cloud.

For those who don’t know the Award: The FilmLight CAMERIMAGE Colour Awards sit outside the software stack but inside the grading ecosystem: feature, episodic, commercial and documentary colourists can enter from any finishing platform, while winners receive Baselight M access. The FilmLight CAMERIMAGE Colour Awards 2026 are open for submissions until 31 July 2026. The sixth edition accepts work graded on any colour grading system.

For those who don’t know the tool: ArcGIS CityEngine generates procedural 3D cities for planning, architectural visualisation and entertainment. Its models can move into DCC and realtime pipelines including Houdini and Unreal Engine. CityEngine 2026 takes its Python 3 integration out of beta. The API now has feature parity with the older Jython implementation, while projects can select either environment independently.