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Deadline

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

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

Check out the popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on's neat new GPU-accelerated mesh fracturing and Boolean system.

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

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 adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

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

Wednesday, January 4th, 2023

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

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2022

Check out the new features in ftrack's cloud-based production tracking and shot review system for visual effects and animation work.

Thursday, March 3rd, 2022

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

AWS's popular renderfarm manager now runs in Licence Free Mode on farms with 10 Render Workers.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021