Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2020

Updated: Sapphire 2020 ships. Release adds OpenColorIO support, new lens whacking effect.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Foundry ships Nuke 12.0, NukeX 12.0, Nuke Studio 12.0

Base edition of the software gets neat Healing Brush-like Inpaint node; NukeX gets VR compositing tools from Cara VR.

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5

Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.

Wednesday, August 21st, 2019

Crytek posts 2019-2020 CryEngine roadmap

CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Academy Software Foundation to host OpenEXR, OpenCue

Industry open-source initiative to 'support and drive collaboration' around OpenCue render manager.

Friday, May 3rd, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.22

Game engine gets support for real-time ray tracing on Nvidia GPUs, plus new animation and virtual production tools.

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019

Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system

Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2019

Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0

Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.

Friday, February 1st, 2019

Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue

Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.

Friday, January 25th, 2019

Foundry ships Mari 4.1

Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin

Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Nurulize unveils Atom View and Nu Design

Amazing new VR toolset lets artists stream complex VFX assets into game engines via point clouds.

Tuesday, August 8th, 2017

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0

Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017