Silhouette 2023 gets new generative AI art tools

Sizeable update to the rotoscoping app also adds new film grain nodes and the Primatte chroma keyer.

Thursday, April 27th, 2023

Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1

See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.

Tuesday, December 7th, 2021

Continuum 2021.5 ships

Effects plugin suite for compositing apps gets new tools for creating 3D particle systems, plus nine new GPU-acclerated cinematic effects.

Friday, June 25th, 2021

Foundry relaxes plugin restrictions on Nuke Indie

$499/year edition of Nuke for indie artists and freelancers now works with OFX plugins like Neat Video.

Friday, September 25th, 2020

Foundry releases Nuke Indie

'Lightly restricted' new $499/year edition of Nuke Studio is aimed at freelance compositors. Find out how it compares to the full version.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Red Giant ships VFX Suite 1.5

Suite of After Effects plugins for visual effects work gets Lens Distortion, a new automated lens correction tool. Check it out here.

Friday, May 15th, 2020

Red Giant launches VFX Suite

Set of 9 GPU-based, VFX-focused After Effects plugins includes neat new tool Supercomp; updates to Primatte Keyer, Knoll Light Factory.

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum & Sapphire 2019.5

Continuum gets better integration with C4D and Primatte keying. Mocha Pro and Sapphire now available for Flame.

Thursday, June 13th, 2019

Boris FX releases Continuum 11 and Sapphire 11

Now shipping. See videos of the new tracking, keying and VR tools in the popular effects plugin suites.

Tuesday, October 17th, 2017

Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 9 Studio

Major update cuts the price of the compositor to $299, adds unlimited network rendering, new tracking, VR and review tools.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2017

Blackmagic Design acquires Ultimatte

Fusion developer buys Ultimatte's multi-Academy-Award-winning greenscreen keying technology.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2016

Nuke Non-Commercial is now free to download

All the toolsets of Nuke Studio, but limited to HD output. Check out what you can and can't do with it here.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2015

FXhome updates HitFilm 3 Pro

Updated: Latest free update adds new Star Wars-style title crawl and support for DaVinci Resolve 11.

Monday, March 2nd, 2015