Blackcore releases ExplosiaFX for Softimage
New plugin lets users create voxel-based gaseous fluid effects using Softimage's ICE toolset.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
Arnold
Google relaunches Zync render service in beta
VFX-friendly online service now available on Google Cloud Platform. Sign up to get $800 in free credits.
Thursday, September 3rd, 2015
Substance Painter 1.5 and Substance Designer 5.2 ship
Both Allegorithmic texturing tools get export presets for V-Ray, Arnold, Redshift and Corona; new viewport display options.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Katana
KtoA plugin now officially shipping. Price of Arnold itself now down to $790 for a node-locked licence.
Friday, August 7th, 2015
AAA studio releases FurryBall RT
Now shipping: Major rewrite of GPU-based Maya renderer boosts speed, but temporarily removes 3ds Max and C4D support.
Tuesday, July 7th, 2015
Artixels ships Escher 1.2
Relight even images rendered with DoF or motion blur with this nifty set of 'deep relighting' tools for Nuke.
Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 4
Maya crowd-simulation system gets new options for blendshape animation, auto IK - and support for very big sims indeed.
Monday, May 25th, 2015
Solid Angle releases Arnold for Cinema 4D
C4DtoA plugin lets Arnold render "most Cinema 4D features", plus scenes created using TurbulenceFD or X-Particles.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Gnomon releases Texturing Environments with Mari
DreamWorks veteran Jessica Canter's new 150-minute tutorial provides a broad-based guide to environment work.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
The Foundry releases Katana 2
Heavyweight lighting & look dev tool gets new public API, support for Lua scripting, improved performance.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 4.0
Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Get a free region rendering tool for Maya and Arnold
Download Arvid Schneider and Rico Koschmitzky's neat add-on for MtoA, plus two new bonus helper tools.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
VFX breakdowns of the month: February 2015
Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.
Saturday, February 28th, 2015