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Thinkbox Software

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

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

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

Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

Avatar VFX producer's cloud-based tool for planning and tracking budgets for visual effects projects adds support for episodic series.

Thursday, August 8th, 2019

Avatar VFX producer Joyce Cox's new online platform provides a smarter way to cost out VFX shows.

Wednesday, July 25th, 2018

Render farm manager gets a range of new security features; support for KeyShot, Altus and Silhouette.

Thursday, March 9th, 2017

Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.

Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

New version of heavy-duty particle meshing tool boosts speed up to 2x, improves V-Ray compatibility.

Monday, October 3rd, 2016

Heavy-duty particle renderer for 3ds Max and Maya gets faster, more controllable DoF and motion blur.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins.

Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016