Red Giant releases Magic Bullet Suite 14.0
Suite of colour grading plugins gets its first major update in four years. Check out the new features here.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
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Free tool EbSynth turns video into hand-painted animation
Now in beta: neat app applies the look of hand-painted stills to video. Now exports direct to After Effects.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020.2
Compositing and finishing software gets new machine-learning-based tools to identify and isolate human heads and bodies from footage.
Thursday, November 14th, 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
Autodesk ships Flame 2020.1
VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019
Crytek posts 2019-2020 CryEngine roadmap
CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Eye candy: Autodesk's 2019 M&E showreel
See new work created in 3ds Max, Maya and Flame, from Fantastic Beasts to fabulous student shorts.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
RE:Vision Effects launches RE:Grade
New After Effects and Premiere Pro plugin salvages poorly exposed footage before grading begins.
Saturday, February 16th, 2019
FXhome ships Imerge Pro 2.0
Interesting RAW-focused still image editor gets GPU-based import engine, new context-sensitive workflow, and 16-bit image export.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
FXhome ships Imerge Pro
'World's first RAW image compositor' edits still images non-destructively, and provides some neat keying and grading tools.
Friday, October 26th, 2018
Adobe releases After Effects CC 16.0
Update adds depth passes for native 3D layers, new expressions engine, new Lumetri Color controls.
Monday, October 15th, 2018