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

The Foundry ships Mari 3

Updated, now shipping: Texturing app gets OpenSubdiv support; Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and UE4 shaders; native Modo integration.

Thursday, December 3rd, 2015

Natron 2.0 ships

Big update to the open-source compositor adds Python support, roto painting and new dopesheet. Check out the new features here.

Friday, October 9th, 2015

Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 7

Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2015

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5

Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.

Thursday, May 14th, 2015

Isotropix releases Clarisse iFX 2.0

Updated, now shipping: Big update to next-gen 2D/3D tool adds new layout, look dev & rendering options.

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015