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Sunday, May 15th, 2022
ACES
Magic Bullet Suite 16.1 ships
Maxon's colour correction tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro gets initial OCIO support, two new tools for creating light hazes in Looks.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4
3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 17.3
Free grading and editing software is now 'up to 3x' faster on Macs with Apple's new M1 processors.
Friday, August 20th, 2021
Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
AWS unveils Open 3D Engine
Successor to Lumberyard is an unusual open-source 'AAA-capable' modular game engine that includes Amazon's new Atom renderer.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Pixar releases RenderMan 24 with RenderMan XPU
Long-awaited update includes new hybrid CPU/GPU rendering mode. See all the new features here.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Maxon ships Redshift 3.0.46
GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini
See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Otoy unveils OctaneRender 2020.2 and 2021
See what's new in the next major updates to the GPU renderer and its new RNDR+ subscription deal.
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020
Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max
Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
NewTek ships LightWave 2020
3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.
Friday, April 24th, 2020