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

Serif releases Affinity Photo for iPad

Pro image-editing tool gets $30 iOS edition. All the key features of the Mac version, GPU-accelerated, and touch-optimised.

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta

Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Side Effects Software releases Houdini 16

Updated: 'Largest ever' Houdini update adds autorigging, more simulation tools, terrain system. Now shipping.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017

Natron 2.2 ships

Sizeable update to the open source compositor adds 16 new plugins, including keying, retiming, blur, denoise and colour correction.

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.4.1

Heavyweight renderer gets image Denoising system, new hair shader, innovative OpenEXR/Id technology.

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

The Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 10

Now shipping: Update adds multi-GPU support, better roto paint, new Smart Vector toolset in NukeX.

Thursday, April 28th, 2016

The Foundry ships Modo 10.0v1

Videos: see all the new features in action, from tools for games artists to new UV and UDIM workflows.

Thursday, April 7th, 2016