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

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1

New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4

3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.27

See our pick of UE4's new features, from more in-camera visual effects tools to multi-GPU lightmap baking.

Monday, August 23rd, 2021