Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1
See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
compositing
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Stager 1.1
Scene layout and rendering app gets key workflow improvements - and a new $150 perpetual licence.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.1
New features in the compositing app include a live link to Unreal Engine and new machine learning options in NukeX.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Magic Bullet Suite 15.1 ships
Update to Maxon's colour correction plugins lets users apply looks inside Unreal Engine as well as compositing and editing apps.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for SketchUp Update 2
SketchUp renderer gets new scattering and decal systems, big update to real-time render mode V-Ray Vision.
Friday, November 5th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 22.0
Compositing software gets long-awaited Multi-Frame Rendering system, new performance profiling tools, update to Cinema 4D Lite.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021
Autodesk ships Flame 2022.2
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets eight new advanced colour correction curve types and support for 12G SDI video output.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Maxon ends perpetual licences of Red Giant products
New versions of Trapcode Suite, VFX Suite and Magic Bullet Suite available only via subscriptions.
Friday, September 17th, 2021
Discover how to create a lighting template in Katana
Get started with the lighting and look dev software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 4th, 2021