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GPU-accelerated ambient occlusion plugin now compatible with After Effects CS5 and up on OS X Lion.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Creature Comforts takes a turn for the dark side in the first 'talkie' from the cult Babioles shorts' creator.

Monday, April 9th, 2012

Download a free two-thread version of the Nuke look development, lighting and rendering toolset today.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

Archibald finds love beyond the end of the world in Kadavre Exquis' beautifully surreal animated short.

Friday, March 30th, 2012

HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

'Best interop with After Effects just got better' claims blog post for latest seven-minute preview video.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

GPU-accelerated plugin calculates ambient occlusion from the Z-depth data embedded in your renders.

Tuesday, February 21st, 2012

Developer John Hable releases new tonemapping tool for After Effects in open beta. Get it before 8 January.

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Export projects from After Effects CS3 and above directly to Cinema 4D R13 with the latest release.

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

Leading collection of VFX sparks for Autodesk, Avid and After Effects updated to version 6. Pricey, but still vital, say reviewers.

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

Use them to give commercial projects a little zing with the accompanying After Effects tutorial.

Monday, September 19th, 2011

Now shipping: Motion Boutique releases its Newton rigid-body engine for Adobe's compositing app.

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Particle tool Trapcode Form gets a major upgrade in the latest update to Peder Norrby's VFX plug-ins.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011