IK3D https://ik3d.fr/ Art Director / B3D Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:08:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-Logo-8-07-1-32x32.png IK3D https://ik3d.fr/ 32 32 http://ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/svgLogo.svghttp://ik3d.fr/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/svgLogo.svg54b5c4 Qwen-Image-Edit Just Made Character Consistency Free — And Handed 3D Artists the Missing First Step to Image-to-3D https://www.ik3d.fr/qwen-image-edit-just-made-character-consistency-free-and-handed-3d-artists-the-missing-first-step-to-image-to-3d/ https://www.ik3d.fr/qwen-image-edit-just-made-character-consistency-free-and-handed-3d-artists-the-missing-first-step-to-image-to-3d/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:08:18 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47858 For years, the single hardest problem in AI character art wasn’t making a pretty image — it...

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]]> https://www.ik3d.fr/qwen-image-edit-just-made-character-consistency-free-and-handed-3d-artists-the-missing-first-step-to-image-to-3d/feed/ 0 VLM3 — Meta Just Argued You Don’t Need a Special 3D Model: A Plain 4B Chat Model Learns Depth, Correspondence and Camera Pose Natively https://www.ik3d.fr/vlm3-meta-just-argued-you-dont-need-a-special-3d-model-a-plain-4b-chat-model-learns-depth-correspondence-and-camera-pose-natively/ https://www.ik3d.fr/vlm3-meta-just-argued-you-dont-need-a-special-3d-model-a-plain-4b-chat-model-learns-depth-correspondence-and-camera-pose-natively/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2026 02:15:39 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47842 Hook For two years the whole 3D-AI industry has been building bigger, weirder, more specialized machines —...

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]]> https://www.ik3d.fr/colmap-4-1-the-unsung-engine-behind-every-splat-youve-ever-made-just-got-a-100x-gpu-heart-transplant/feed/ 0 PixelDiT — NVIDIA Just Killed the VAE: A Best-Paper Image Model That Generates Straight Onto Pixels https://www.ik3d.fr/pixeldit-nvidia-just-killed-the-vae-a-best-paper-image-model-that-generates-straight-onto-pixels/ https://www.ik3d.fr/pixeldit-nvidia-just-killed-the-vae-a-best-paper-image-model-that-generates-straight-onto-pixels/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:55:45 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47807 Every image model you have ever used — Stable Diffusion, FLUX, the lot — cheats. It does...

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]]> https://www.ik3d.fr/pixeldit-nvidia-just-killed-the-vae-a-best-paper-image-model-that-generates-straight-onto-pixels/feed/ 0 General Intuition — The Lab Betting That 2 Billion Game Clips Are How AI Finally Learns to Move https://www.ik3d.fr/general-intuition-the-lab-betting-that-2-billion-game-clips-are-how-ai-finally-learns-to-move/ https://www.ik3d.fr/general-intuition-the-lab-betting-that-2-billion-game-clips-are-how-ai-finally-learns-to-move/#respond Mon, 29 Jun 2026 08:54:35 +0000 https://ik3d.fr/?p=47790 While everyone else is racing to generate prettier worlds, a New York lab is quietly betting that...

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