Natron 2.2 ships
Sizeable update to the open source compositor adds 16 new plugins, including keying, retiming, blur, denoise and colour correction.
Monday, January 16th, 2017
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Best Christmas and New Year discounts for CG artists
Check out our seasonal list of money-saving offers on CG tools including 3D-Coat, Arion, Mari, Modo and Xfrog.
Friday, December 23rd, 2016
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists
See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.
Thursday, November 24th, 2016
Pixologic unveils ZBrushCore
Updated with details of the full feature set: check out which tools are included in the new $150 edition of ZBrush - and what isn't.
Friday, September 30th, 2016
GenArts ships Sapphire 10
Now shipping: Suite of plugins for compositing apps gets three new effects, new presets for Builder.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2016
Boris FX acquires GenArts
Buyout will put the competing Boris Continuum Complete and Sapphire collections of compositing and editorial plugins under a single roof.
Friday, September 9th, 2016
Red Giant ships Trapcode Suite 13.1 for After Effects
Free update to plugin suite adds new options for path-based 3D geometry generator Trapcode Tao.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
Otoy releases OctaneRender 3.0
Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Download the Maya and Maya LT 2016 Bonus Tools
Updated: Get this set of handy free scripts and plugins - now updated for Maya 2016 Extension 2.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2016
Download Godot 2.0
Open-source 2D and 3D game engine gets improved scene editor and debugging tools, plus support for plugins and live scene editing.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2016
FXhome ships HitFilm 4 Pro
Editing, compositing and effects app gets new 3D rendering, animation options, plus $299 Boris FX titling plugin 3D Objects thrown in free.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2015
Fabric Software ships Fabric Engine 2
Create complex CG tools without coding with Fabric's long-awaited new visual programming system.
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
The best new software from NAB 2015
We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps.
Tuesday, April 21st, 2015