Serif releases Affinity Photo for Windows
Now shipping: Promising sub-$50 32-bit image editor now available for Windows as well as Mac OS X.
Thursday, December 8th, 2016
Windows
Neoglyphic Entertainment ships NeoFur 2.0 for UE4
Real-time hair and fur plugin now supports motion blur, import of NURBS curves from DCC tools.
Monday, October 10th, 2016
Get Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max or Maya
Updated: Maya version of AMD's free, physically accurate OpenCL based GPU renderer now available.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 5.5
Update to texture-creation tool adds ability to author materials in Nvidia's MDL language, new Linux edition.
Friday, August 26th, 2016
The Foundry releases Katana for Windows
Now shipping: Katana 2.5 makes powerful look dev tool available to non-Linux users for the first time.
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016
DNA Research ships beta of 3Delight for Katana
RenderMan-compliant production renderer gets new Katana edition with improved support for OSL.
Friday, July 15th, 2016
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.0
Open-source digital paint package gets cool new 2D animation toolset, with export to commercial apps.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 8, Fusion 8 Studio
Now officially shipping: formerly Windows-only compositor now available on Mac. Linux version due later this year.
Friday, April 1st, 2016
innoBright halves price of Altus 1.3
Updated: Tool for denoising images generated in renderers like Arnold and V-Ray now starts at $20/month.
Monday, March 28th, 2016
Crytek releases CryEngine V for free
AAA game engine now available on a 'pay what you want basis'; gets new C# API and particle system, revamped renderer.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2016
Vulkan 1.0 arrives: GPU drivers already available
See tech demos for the next-gen graphics API and download drivers for Nvidia and AMD GPUs here.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016
Amazon releases free Lumberyard game engine
Get full source code access to the CryEngine-based AAA engine, aimed at multiplayer online titles.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
CL3VER launches CL3VER 3.3
Updated: Cloud-based platform for turning 3D models into interactive presentations gets VR capabilities, new desktop app.
Monday, December 21st, 2015