LuxRender 1.4 ships

Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.

Monday, February 9th, 2015

Krita team releases stable beta of Krita 2.9

Open source paint app gets new Liquify tool, new colour selector, better PSD and RAW file handling.

Tuesday, December 16th, 2014

Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.0 for Maya

Now shipping: Speed boosts, new progressive renderer, plus new option to render Bifrost meshes.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

The Foundry announces pricing for Nuke Studio

New editorial, VFX and finishing system to ship for over $3,000 less than the cost of NukeX and Hiero.

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

Autodesk releases Maya & 3ds Max 2015 Extension 1

New updates add OpenSubdiv and Alembic support to Max; colour-management and performance profiling tools to Maya.

Tuesday, August 12th, 2014

Krita 2.8 brings open-source paint tool to Windows users

Updated: Now with an early build for OS X, too. Back it on Kickstarter to speed up Mac development.

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014

Eyeon ships Fusion 7

First full update to the compositing package in five years throws in the $995 Dimension stereo tools for free.

Thursday, June 12th, 2014

The Foundry ships Modo 801

'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.

Friday, April 25th, 2014

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max

It's out of beta! Read more about version 3.0's render speed boosts, new features, and new pricing here.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta

Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.

Monday, November 4th, 2013

eyeon Software announces Fusion 7

Compositor to get new 3D engine, overhauled UI, support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, new roto tools.

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

Krita 2.7 released

Open-source paint app continues to evolve in CG-friendly directions with new Offset tool for tileable textures.

Wednesday, August 7th, 2013

The Foundry releases Nuke and NukeX 6.3v7

Compositing apps gain support for importing layered PSD files and the new OpenColorIO open standard.

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012