Foundry closes Athera
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
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Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Foundry discontinues Mischief
Users of the digital sketching app have until 31 December to obtain a permanent activation key or retrieve files from the old website.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.1
It's mainly a performance release, but there are new modelling and character rigging tools, plus support for the AxF material format.
Friday, August 16th, 2019
FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 13.0
All-in-one editing, compositing and effects software integrates Foundry's 3D camera tracker, also used in NukeX and Nuke Studio.
Friday, August 2nd, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019
VFX veteran Jody Madden becomes new Foundry CEO
Leading visual effects software firm's new boss previously worked at ILM, Lucasfilm, Digital Domain.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2019
Sneak peek: Nuke 12.0's upcoming Inpaint tool
GPU-accelerated tool will work like Photoshop's Healing Brush, quickly cloning out blemishes and markers.
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Digital Expressions Sweden releases Tropism 1.0 for Modo
Neat procedural add-on lets users generate ultra-customisable trees and plants via native Modo tools.
Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro
Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Chaos Group releases V-Ray Next for Modo
Modo edition of the renderer gets new scene intelligence features, faster GPU rendering, new rolling shutter effect.
Thursday, April 25th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.5
Big update to 3D texture painting software adds entire new material system for roughing out the look of assets, plus new Arnold shader.
Friday, March 29th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 13.0
Major update to the 3D software adds new GPU render engine, animation layers, first step towards Houdini-like procedural workflows.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019