Superluminal ships Stardust 1.6 for After Effects
Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
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Corel ships Painter 2021
Check out the new features in Corel's natural media painting package, including new AI-based preset art styles and Clone Tinting.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.5 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer for Cinema 4D gets support for subsurface scattering, translucency.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Adobe ships After Effects 17.1
Compositing app gets new motion-graphics-friendly options for working with shape layers, plus support for ProRes RAW import.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
Red Giant ships VFX Suite 1.5
Suite of After Effects plugins for visual effects work gets Lens Distortion, a new automated lens correction tool. Check it out here.
Friday, May 15th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1
3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Autodesk ships Flame 2021
Effects and finishing app gets a neat AI-based tool for isolating individual parts of the face, plus support for Dolby Vision HDR.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Otoy and JangaFX team up to create EmberGen FX
New integrated version of the EmberGen real-time gaseous fluid simulator coming to OctaneRender.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant
The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Bleank ships Black Ink 2020
GPU-accelerated painting app gets interesting new node-based workflow for creating images, plus support for unlimited 64K layers.
Monday, December 23rd, 2019
Autodesk ships Maya 2020 and Maya LT 2020
Varied update adds support for simulations in cached playback; new retopology and rigging tools.
Thursday, December 12th, 2019