Check out xStudio, DNEG's open-source playback tool
Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.
Monday, July 31st, 2023
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Blender Foundation unveils Blender Apps
Custom versions of the open-source 3D software could be used as VFX and game pipeline tools.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Chaos Czech ships Corona 9
3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer gets new procedural clouds and geometry replication systems. Subscription pricing overhauled.
Monday, October 17th, 2022
Autodesk announces Flow
First product to be released on Autodesk's new 'industry cloud' for M&E work like VFX and game dev will 'focus on asset management'.
Tuesday, September 27th, 2022
Autodesk ships RV 2022
VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Autodesk ships RV 2021
Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Autodesk releases RV 7.8
Image viewer and playback tool provided with Shotgun gets new prorgressive loading system to speed up work on long playlists.
Saturday, July 18th, 2020
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 6.3
Update to production-tracking and asset-management system speeds media browsing and client reviews.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Get BUF's Bview sequence playback software for free
Download the VES Award-winning VFX studio's in-house image viewing, shot review and editing tool.
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Shotgun Software unveils Shotgun 6 and RV 6
One login now lets you use both tools at no extra cost, plus some of the functionality of RV's sister apps.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
BUF to release complete in-house set of VFX tools
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Shotgun pricing down; will soon also include RV
Industry-standard asset manager now available from $30/month, if you only want online support.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015
Get Kuadro: Kruel Games' free reference image tool
Handy free viewer creates custom, multi-monitor layouts for reference images and saves them as presets.
Friday, January 16th, 2015