Adobe releases After Effects CC 2017
Now shipping: Update extends AE's GPU acceleration and integration with Cinema 4D, and adds new collaboration tools.
Friday, November 4th, 2016
GPU acceleration
Imagineer Systems ships mocha Pro 5
Updated, now shipping: see the matchmover's GPU-accelerated tracking and half-price After Effects plugin in action.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Adobe unveils After Effects CC 2015.3
Performance-focused update will include GPU-accelerated Gaussian Blur and Lumetri Color correction.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Otoy is cross-compiling CUDA for non-Nvidia GPUs
Story in VentureBeat retweeted by Otoy reports that the work will let OctaneRender run on AMD GPUs.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Joe Alter releases Shave and a Haircut 9.6
Maya hair plugin gets first big update in several years, improving viewport performance and grooming tools.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2015
Adobe rolls out Creative Cloud 2015 updates
Photoshop CC 2015 adds new normal mapping and poly reduction options, smart noise and film grain.
Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
The Foundry unveils Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 9
All three get native Flipbook tool, more GPU acceleration; NukeX and Studio get revamped planar tracker.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 8.2
Free update to digital-paint-cum-VFX tool adds basic terrain generation, GPU support, new Bokeh filter.
Monday, February 18th, 2013
Can raytracing really kill raster graphics?
Imagination Technologies thinks so. We explore why its new raytracing cards could change how you work.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2013
The Foundry ships Mari 1.6
And you can finally use it with AMD GPUs, if you have a mid-to-high-end card. New vector paint tools, too.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
The Foundry ships Nuke 7.0
Popular compositor gains partial GPU acceleration, revamped 2D tracker, support for Alembic and OpenEXR 2.0.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Autodesk unveils Flame 20th Anniversary Edition
Updated: Anniversary Edition now shipping; adds a unified workspace and enhanced GPU support.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2012