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Artist-friendly renderfarm manager for visualization and VFX supports 3ds Max, Blender and Fusion, with C4D, Maya and Houdini to come.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Firm plans 'general support' for the V-Ray renderer on Linux systems with ARM CPUs to cut power use without compromising performance.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2024

Online service based around AWS's free Deadline renderfarm manager 'makes it easy to set up a cloud-based render farm in minutes'.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024

OctaneRender developer becomes Blender's latest Corporate Patron, contributing at least €240,000/year to the open-source 3D software.

Friday, February 9th, 2024

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a multiphysics toolkit. Now subscription-only.

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023

Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2023

New cloud-based media archiving system helps VFX and CG firms build online libraries of key assets.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Amazon gets into crowd simulation, Autodesk buys into volumetric video, and Sketchfab goes 18+ only.

Monday, December 5th, 2022

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022