Adobe ships Photoshop 22.4
Image-editing software now runs natively on ARM processors under Windows 10, like those in Microsoft's Surface Pro X tablets.
Monday, May 17th, 2021
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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
Maxon ships Redshift for Mac
Updated: Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users can now run the renderer on Macs with M1 processors as well as AMD GPUs.
Friday, April 30th, 2021
Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Photoshop now runs natively on Apple Silicon
Still some feature limitations, but the March 2021 release now runs '1.5x faster' on Macs with M1 chips.
Wednesday, March 10th, 2021
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 17.1
Free update to the compositing app adds new tools for retiming animations, 2D vector shapes for motion graphics.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender
New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Corel ships Painter Essentials 8
Sub-$50 natural media painting software gets support for Apple's M1 chips, more AI-based auto-paint options, new colour harmonies.
Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 2102
3D tracking software gets support for Apple's new M1 processors and for modern high-DPI monitors.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 4.4
Popular Photoshop brush organiser plugin gets improved support for Apple's M1 processor in new Macs.
Wednesday, January 13th, 2021
Computerinsel releases PhotoLine 22.5
Sub-$100 image editor now supports the new Apple Silicon processors on current MacBooks on macOS.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
Discover 10 key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.2
Read our pick of the new features in the game engine, from ray traced reflections to real-time compositing.
Monday, December 21st, 2020
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