Serif releases Affinity Photo for iPad
Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.
Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
OpenColorIO
Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta
Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5
Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.
Friday, April 21st, 2017
Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16
Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.4.1
Heavyweight renderer gets image Denoising system, new hair shader, innovative OpenEXR/Id technology.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2016
The Foundry ships Modo 10.0v1
Videos: see all the new features in action, from tools for games artists to new UV and UDIM workflows.
Thursday, April 7th, 2016
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 2.0
Updated, now shipping: Big update to next-gen 2D/3D tool adds new layout, look dev & rendering options.
Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015
Inria ships Natron 1.2 plus new snapshot builds
Test upcoming features in the free, VFX-ready compositor, including the new script editor and Python API.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Krita team releases stable beta of Krita 2.9
Open source paint app gets new Liquify tool, new colour selector, better PSD and RAW file handling.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya
Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Eyeon ships Fusion 7
First full update to the compositing package in five years throws in the $995 Dimension stereo tools for free.
Thursday, June 12th, 2014
V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta
Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.
Monday, November 4th, 2013