Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 22.5
Sub-$100 image editor now supports the new Apple Silicon processors on current MacBooks on macOS.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
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10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26
Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.
Friday, December 4th, 2020
Foundry ships Nuke 12.2, NukeX 12.2, Nuke Studio 12.2
Compositing and editorial tools get USD import, licence roaming, new synchronous shot review system.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020
Download a free high-resolution timelapse HDRI sky
Get HDRMAPS' series of 300 free 9,256 x 4,628px EXR sky images. Licensed for commercial projects.
Friday, July 3rd, 2020
Red Giant ships VFX Suite 1.5
Suite of After Effects plugins for visual effects work gets Lens Distortion, a new automated lens correction tool. Check it out here.
Friday, May 15th, 2020
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.18
Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Download 40 free blood textures from ActionVFX
Get free blood spots, spatters and trails, for use in VFX work. 32-bit PNG files, for commercial use.
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Get Alex Senechal's five free 10,000 x 5,000px studio HDRIs
Download five high-resolution synthetic HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups, for use in portfolio work.
Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.7.1 and Affinity Designer 1.7.1
Updated: mainly bugfixes this time, but there is also some very cool integration with new page layout tool Affinity Publisher.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Red Giant launches VFX Suite
Set of 9 GPU-based, VFX-focused After Effects plugins includes neat new tool Supercomp; updates to Primatte Keyer, Knoll Light Factory.
Wednesday, June 19th, 2019