Blackmagic halves price of DaVinci Resolve Studio
On OS X, at least, thanks to the new $500 Mac App Store edition. Free 12.2 update also now available.
Saturday, January 2nd, 2016
price drop
AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall RT by 40%
Price of the GPU-based Maya renderer cut permanently to €359. New Cinema 4D version out now.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
Autodesk to discontinue turnkey Flame systems
High-end finishing system now available as a software-only product for Linux - and soon, for Mac OS X.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Graphine releases Granite for Unity 5
Use 'hundreds of 8K textures' in your real-time apps with the newly updated texture-streaming system.
Thursday, October 1st, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Katana
KtoA plugin now officially shipping. Price of Arnold itself now down to $790 for a node-locked licence.
Friday, August 7th, 2015
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 2.0
Maya fur plugin gets speed boost, better dynamics, new sculpting tools. Price down to CAD $699, too.
Monday, August 3rd, 2015
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 9.6
Updated: VFX-friendly paint app gets new greenscreen and video-repair tools. Now out on Steam for $49.99.
Monday, March 16th, 2015
NewTek ships LightWave 2015: price cut to $995
New Bullet constraints, new Match Perspective tool, new version numbering - and new lower price.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 7 for free
No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Mixamo launches Starter and Indie pricing plans
$50/month gets you ten animations, plus access to the character creator, facial mocap and decimation tools.
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2014
Fluid simulator adds viscosity, new Ocean Force daemon, support for the Arnold renderer. Price down too.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Autodesk launches Maya LT on Steam
Updated: rental price cut to $30 per month. Annual rental cut from $400 to $240 in Autodesk's own store.
Monday, June 9th, 2014