AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.5 for Blender

Free GPU renderer gets new bevel shader, better interactive rendering. New Maya and Houdini versions also available.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1

Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2022

Adobe ships After Effects 23.0

Update to the compositing app makes it possible to use any layer as a track matte. 3D model import and OCIO support now in beta.

Tuesday, October 18th, 2022

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

Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023

3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Continuum 2022.5 ships

Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.

Friday, June 24th, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1

Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022

Boris FX releases Sapphire 2022.5

Suite of effects plugins gets more lens flares and light leaks; multi-GPU support in DaVinci Resolve.

Saturday, May 28th, 2022

Magic Bullet Suite 16.1 ships

Maxon's colour correction tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro gets initial OCIO support, two new tools for creating light hazes in Looks.

Monday, April 25th, 2022

ftrack ships cineSync 5.0

Major compatibility-breaking update to the remote shot review tool adds layers system and support for OCIO 2 and OTIO.

Wednesday, April 20th, 2022

LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2

Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.

Saturday, December 11th, 2021