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Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.

Wednesday, November 10th, 2021

New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.

Thursday, June 17th, 2021

New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software.

Thursday, April 29th, 2021

Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.

Tuesday, January 26th, 2021

Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

New cineSync-based system removes lag during shot reviews, even when collaborating globally.

Friday, June 12th, 2020

TurboSquid's cloud-based, AI-driven service automatically tags and renders preview images for studios' assets.

Thursday, March 26th, 2020

All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.

Thursday, November 7th, 2019

Check out our handy run-down of the new simulation, graphics and AR tools announced at this week's Unity user event.

Wednesday, September 25th, 2019

Production tracking system gets artist-friendly desktop app with built-in comparative review tools.

Monday, August 12th, 2019

New online service splits images into surface colour and illumination maps, to create de-lighted textures.

Wednesday, June 26th, 2019