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
GPU acceleration
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Maxon releases Universe 5.1
Under-the-hood update to the library of effects for compositing and editing apps adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, February 15th, 2022
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3
Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1
See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 17.3
Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.
Friday, August 20th, 2021
Maxon ships Universe 4.0
Set of effects plugins for editors and compositors adds electricity, stop motion and analog effects, plus Metal support for Mac users.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Boris FX ships Sapphire 2021.5
Effects plugins for compositing and editing apps get native support for Apple's M1 processors and multi-frame rendering in After Effects.
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.9 and Affinity Designer 1.9
Image-editing and vector design apps get external file referencing, GPU acceleration on Windows 10.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Adobe ships September 2020 update to After Effects
More support for GPU acceleration in the compositing software makes Channel effects 'up to 1.65x faster'.
Wednesday, September 16th, 2020
cebas ships finalRender Drop 4
3ds Max renderer gets support for hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia RTX graphics cards, plus GPU memory sharing via NVLink.
Saturday, March 14th, 2020
Foundry ships Nuke 12.1, NukeX 12.1, Nuke Studio 12.1
Check out the new features in Foundry's family of compositing tools, broken down by edition.
Thursday, February 20th, 2020