Foundry releases Nuke 14.0
Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Bokeh
Foundry acquires Peregrine Labs' Bokeh plugin for Nuke
$99/year lens simulation plugin will be integrated into the compositing app for free - including Nuke Indie.
Friday, December 2nd, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2021.9 for Cinema 4D
Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Richard Rosenman releases DOF PRO for After Effects
New After Effects edition brings the popular Photoshop motion blur tool to VFX and motion graphics work.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Mercenaries Engineering releases Guerilla 2.2
Production renderer and look dev suite gets OpenColorIO support, USD export, Open Image Denoise.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.1
Update adds new GPU-based lens blur filter with more realistic Bokeh, plus the option to perform multiple Content-Aware Fills in one go.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.3
Open-source 2D animation tool gets new text generator effect, plus touchscreen support on Windows.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2
Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.
Monday, November 5th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 2 for 3ds Max
New features include OpenVDB, FumeFX and Phoenix FD support, better interoperability with V-Ray.
Tuesday, June 26th, 2018
Autodesk ships Flame 2019
Effects and compositing software to get new grading and look dev features, HDR Waveform scope, and improved real-time playback.
Friday, April 6th, 2018
Reallusion ships iClone 7.1
Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017