Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform

Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022

Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 6 R2

Free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Mari adds powerful new Node Editor and Ramp Editor.

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Foundry ships Katana 6.0

Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.

Friday, December 16th, 2022

Foundry releases Mari 6.0

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

Foundry releases Nuke 15.0, NukeX 15.0, Nuke Studio 15.0

Check out the new features in the compositing and editorial software, including native Apple Silicon and OpenAssetIO support.

Friday, October 13th, 2023

Foundry ships Flix 6.6

Check out the new features in the story development tool, including support for proxy servers and more reliable native version control.

Saturday, May 20th, 2023

Pixar releases RenderMan 25

Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.

Tuesday, April 18th, 2023

Foundry releases Nuke 14.0

Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo

Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.2

Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2022