Maxon releases Red Giant 2024
See what's new in individual FX and color correction plugin suites Magic Bullet 2024, Trapcode 2024, Universe 2024 and VFX 2024.
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
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Dimension 5 Techs releases D5 Render 2.5
Sizeable update to the GPU ray tracing renderer adds real-time caustics, and cutaway rendering.
Thursday, August 17th, 2023
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 18.1
Check out the neat new features in the free grading, editing and VFX app and its $295 Studio edition.
Friday, November 11th, 2022
Boris FX ships Optics 2022.5
Cinematic effects plugin for Photoshop can now render particle animations over still images to create looping cinemagraphs.
Monday, October 10th, 2022
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2022.5
Suite of effects plugins gets more lens flares and light leaks; multi-GPU support in DaVinci Resolve.
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
Reallusion ships iClone 8
Updated with new video: check out the new features in this major update to the real-time animation software, along with its new pricing.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Get ActionVFX and FILMPAC's free Inferno Collection
Free asset pack for the Inferno Challenge art contest includes nine 2K effects clips of fire and smoke. Commercial use.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
Maxon ships VFX Suite 3.1
Suite of After Effects plugins for common visual effects tasks gets new physically based lens flare generation tool Real Lens Flares.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon ships VFX Suite 2.1
See what's new in this performance-focused update to Maxon's suite of After Effects plugins for common VFX tasks.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2021
D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
Boris FX ships Sapphire 2021.5
Effects plugins for compositing and editing apps get native support for Apple's M1 processors and multi-frame rendering in After Effects.
Thursday, May 6th, 2021