Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine
New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Deadline
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
Adobe to refund Venezuelan users affected by US sanctions
Firm reverses decision not to refund unused subs when Creative Cloud accounts in Venezuela are shut on 28 October.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow for 3ds Max in free open beta
Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
SideFX launches PilotPDG
Standalone pipeline tool lets studios build new VFX, game dev and machine learning workflows around Houdini's new PDG tech.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue
Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.
Friday, January 25th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya
Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Luxion ships KeyShot 7.2
Renderer gets improved support for HiDPI displays and option to export metadata in XMP format, plus integration with Deadline.
Thursday, January 25th, 2018
ftrack announces ftrack Studio and ftrack Review
Cloud-based production tracking system gets new name and a new entry-level edition for shot review.
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017
Boomer Labs and JokerMartini release Vexus 2.0
3ds Max scene and render pass manager gets Deadline integration, 'universal render engine support'.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
Thinkbox Software releases Deadline 9.0
Render farm manager gets a range of new security features; support for KeyShot, Altus and Silhouette.
Thursday, March 9th, 2017
Amazon buys Thinkbox Software
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings.
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017