NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 2018

Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D

Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.

Tuesday, December 5th, 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

VDB Splicer lets you use Booleans with volumetrics

Interesting new LightWave plugin offers unusual ways to edit and resmesh simulation and scan data.

Thursday, July 6th, 2017

Deep FX ships Deep Rising FX 1.2 for LightWave

Affordable new particle-based fluid simulation plugin adds support for Bullet dynamics, OBJ mesh export.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

YCDIVFX releases Nyx Sidekick

Now shipping: New €90 live-linking tool turns Houdini into an 'effects co-processor' for 3ds Max.

Sunday, May 7th, 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

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2018

Update replaces the mental ray renderer with Arnold 5, adds new options for customising the interface and editing motion paths.

Thursday, April 13th, 2017

NewTek previews LightWave Next

Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.

Thursday, March 16th, 2017

Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.5 for Nuke

Nuke edition of the renderer gets support for volumetrics, render denoising, Adaptive Lights system.

Thursday, March 2nd, 2017

Redshift devs release Redshift for Houdini

New integration plugin for the GPU renderer supports Houdini's native primitives, instancing and volumes.

Saturday, February 18th, 2017

Alexandra Institute releases Elementacular 1.5

Maya cloud-creation plugin gets OpenVDB export for rendering in Arnold, V-Ray and RenderMan.

Monday, December 19th, 2016