Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.0
Powerful Maya fur and feathers plugin gets new Braids geometry type, support for layered grooms, option to scatter points on fibres.
Friday, July 20th, 2018
Katana
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Foundry unveils Athera, its new cloud-based VFX platform
Updated: new service aims to let users run a full VFX studio via a web browser. Pricing now revealed.
Monday, April 30th, 2018
Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico
We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.
Wednesday, January 17th, 2018
J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
Eye candy: Foundry's 2017 showreel
See the best work created with Nuke and Mari, from Rogue One and Doctor Strange to ads and VR.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
Autodesk makes Arnold free to schools and colleges
Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five.
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Foundry partners J Cube to distribute Multiverse Studio
Foundry to resell the high-performance USD/Alembic data-transfer framework used on Logan and Doctor Strange.
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
Foundry releases Katana 2.6
Look dev and lighting tool gets new API to lay groundwork for native viewer based on Pixar's Hydra real-time rendering architecture.
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2017
Foundry unveils Elara
New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017