Boris FX ships Sapphire 2021.5
Effects plugins for compositing and editing apps get native support for Apple's M1 processors and multi-frame rendering in After Effects.
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Adobe
AWS launches Amazon Nimble Studio for VFX and animation
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.
Thursday, April 29th, 2021
Adobe launches the Adobe Design Mobile Bundle
New $14.99/month subscription gets you Photoshop and Illustrator for iPad, Fresco and Spark Post.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 18.0
Compositing app gets new real-time draft preview mode for 3D work. Separate beta build adds support for multi-frame rendering.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Photoshop now runs natively on Apple Silicon
Still some feature limitations, but the March 2021 release now runs '1.5x faster' on Macs with M1 chips.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.2 and Photoshop on the iPad 2.1
Image editing apps get new cloud collaboration tools. Desktop edition gets new vector shape controls.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Savage Interactive ships Procreate Pocket 4.0
Big update brings the iPhone edition of the drawing and painting app in line with the iPad version.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances
Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2021.1
Material-authoring software gets support for Pantone colours - and now exports actual 3D geometry.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2021.1
3D texture painting tool gets new Geometry Mask system, plus option to copy effects between layers.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 17.6
Compositing software's Content Aware-Fill object removal system now compensates automatically for lighting changes across a shot.
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020