📹️ Adobe announces text-to-video

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TOP STORY
📹️ Adobe announces text-to-video

This week, Adobe announced that it will be releasing new AI video tools in beta, later this year. These AI tools will enable users to turn text prompts and images into videos using its Firefly model.

• The generated videos are capped at five seconds, but Adobe is testing ways to extend footage and fill gaps in editing timelines.

• Adobe Firefly is trained on licensed content to avoid copyright issues, setting it apart from other AI models like OpenAI’s Sora.

• Users will soon be able to test these features in beta versions.

Users will be able to fine-tune their creations, including configuring camera motion, camera angle, and shot size 👇️ 

Another notable feature coming to Adobe tools is “Generative Extend,” a feature that would enable users to lengthen videos by predicting the next few seconds based on existing footage.

This feature will be coming to Premiere Pro (beta) later this year as well.

You will always be able to create complementary footage to fill gaps in your timeline with a generated clip based on a reference frame 🤯 

Here are some other examples of videos created with the new text-to-video tool 👇️ 

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GAME DESIGN
🎮️ Bezi releases “Sidekick” for game design

Bezi, a collaborative 3D tool, just released “Sidekick,” a new tool designed to speed up your game development process in Unity.

Currently in pre-alpha, Sidekick automates repetitive tasks, instantly updating scene objects and generating C# code directly within Unity.

• You can prompt Sidekick to perform tasks for you.

• Sidekick takes care of coding and scene adjustments for you.

• It also helps you brainstorm and prototype new gameplay features by understanding your game’s scene graph and object properties.

• Debugging is also now faster than ever.

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SOFTWARE
🆕 Maxon releases “ZBrush” for iPad + updates to Cinema4D, Redshift, RedGiant, and Cineware

This week, Maxon announced the highly anticipated ZBrush app for iPad as part of the Maxon One 2025 release — this release also included updates to Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant, and Cineware.

Here’s a quick recap of what was released at Maxon One 2024 👇️ 

• ZBrush 2025: Now includes ZBrush for iPad, allowing users to sculpt on the go with Apple Pencil support and seamless integration with the desktop version.

• Cinema 4D: Features integrated Redshift GPU rendering and new Pyro simulation tools for advanced motion graphics and VFX.

• Redshift: Introduces “Brute Force Caustics” for realistic lighting, improved toon rendering, and enhanced volume depth for rendering smoke and explosions.

• Red Giant: Adds Geo for After Effects, with rigged animation support and depth of field for more complex 3D animations.

• Maxon App: New fast user switching feature enables seamless transitions between devices and easier license management.

📰 Other news you might’ve missed:

• Figma introduced a new PDF and JPEG export quality selector.

• Webflow now allows you to access Google Marketing tools directly in the Webflow dashboard.

• Runway’s “Gen-3 Alpha” video-to-video tool is now available on web for all paid plans.

• Lottielab now allows you to export your animations from Lottielab directly as Telegram Stickers.

• Magnific released “Favs,” an easy and fast way to find your favorite upscales, relights, and style transfers.

• Epidemic Sound is coming soon to DaVinci Resolve as a plugin.

• Suno released a new feature called “Covers,” which allows you to transform a simple voice recording into a fully produced track.

• KREA images using the “Flux” AI model now produce images in real-time.

• HeyGen released “Avatar 3.0,” a new update to its AI avatars that includes dynamic script understanding, spot-on facial expressions, and more.

• Magnific released “Grid View,” which allows you to view all your images more efficiently.

• Screen Studio is releasing “Shareable Links.”

• Tella is adding an “Auto-Zoom” feature soon — it will be able to track the movement of your cursor and add relevant zooms automatically.

• Play is adding “Loops” to Play 2.0, allowing you to change the property value of all the elements of a page or stack.