Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini
See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
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Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 6 for Cinema 4D
Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.
Wednesday, August 26th, 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
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Savage Interactive ships Procreate 5
Big update to the iPad sketching and painting app adds new brush editor and more animation tools.
Monday, December 9th, 2019
Get free VFX image viewer and playback tool DJV 2
Ex-Lucasfilm engineer Darby Johnston's shot review tool is engineered for serious VFX and animation work.
Sunday, November 24th, 2019
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2020
New update adds OSL-based toon shading and built-in greenscreen keying, and makes viewport animation playback up to 2x faster.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.1
Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10
Landmark stable build of the open source image editor supports 32-bit linear workflow, adds new warping and foreground selection tools.
Sunday, April 29th, 2018
The GIMP Team releases GIMP 2.9.8
Open-source image editing tool gets support for on-canvas gradient editing, improved PSD import.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design
Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
Lucasfilm and ILM open-source MaterialX
New open exchange standard for material data aims to do for look dev what Alembic did for geometry.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017