Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 20.0

Free update to the 3D compositor adds new deep compositing toolset, Cryptomatte support, and 180 VR workflows. See all the new features.

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Serif releases Affinity Photo 2.2

Check out the new features in the latest free update to the image-editing software, including support for OCIO 2 color management.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

Check out xStudio, DNEG's open-source playback tool

Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.

Monday, July 31st, 2023

Boris FX releases Silhouette 2022.5

Roto and paint tool gets support for industry-standard ID matte generation system Cryptomatte.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 18.1

Compositing software gets support for AI-based Magic Mask system and more GPU-accelerated tools.

Monday, November 14th, 2022

Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1

Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Continuum 2022.5 ships

Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.

Friday, June 24th, 2022

Boris FX releases Sapphire 2022.5

Suite of effects plugins gets more lens flares and light leaks; multi-GPU support in DaVinci Resolve.

Saturday, May 28th, 2022

ftrack ships cineSync 5.0

Major compatibility-breaking update to the remote shot review tool adds layers system and support for OCIO 2 and OTIO.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4

3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021