Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 8 as free beta
New Mac edition and new UI, but no new features this time round. Beta of the commercial version due soon.
Friday, August 28th, 2015
Mac
Open source devs criticise Apple's OpenCL support
OpenCL drivers for OS X 'broken', Apple 'ignoring its creative users', say LuxRender and Blender devs.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
Sneak peek: see Fusion 7 running on a Mac
New teaser shows Blackmagic Design's formerly Windows-only compositing app running on OS X.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 6
Multi-application network rendering controller now fully compatible with OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
The Animator's Survival Kit: now available on iOS, OS X
Updated: Digital edition of Richard Williams' animation bible also now available for Macs running iBooks.
Friday, January 30th, 2015
The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischief
Cult $25 pen-sketching tool becomes The Foundry's first truly mass-market digital art product.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Krita 2.8 brings open-source paint tool to Windows users
Updated: Now with an early build for OS X, too. Back it on Kickstarter to speed up Mac development.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
How to use 3ds Max on a Mac, or Maya on a tablet
Cory Mogk's step-by-step guide shows you how to run Autodesk software via the Amazon EC2 cloud.
Thursday, February 6th, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari for Mac
Digital paint tool now available on OS X as part of Mari 2.5. Users of other OSs get a new shader API.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
The Foundry announces Mari for Mac
Industry-standard 3D painting tool coming to OS X alongside Windows and Linux. Register for the beta now.
Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
Back HitFilm for Mac and save on HitFilm for Windows
Fund FXhome's Kickstarter campaign to bring its low-cost FX tool to Mac and save $150 on the Windows edition.
Friday, May 17th, 2013
See 3ds Max 'running' on a MacBook Pro
Demo of Otoy's ORBX technology shows Max being streamed from the cloud to Firefox on a Mac laptop.
Thursday, May 16th, 2013
Southpaw Technology open-sources Tactic
Updated: Free asset-management system Tactic Team now runs on Mac OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013