Anastasiy ships MagicPicker 7.1
Popular Photoshop colour wheel and colour picker plugin gets new HUD mode, plus improved performance on older hardware.
Thursday, January 30th, 2020
Metal
Sneak peek: Octane X
Otoy's new Metal-based version of OctaneRender to run on the Intel chips in MacBook Pros as well as the AMD GPUs in Mac desktops.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2020
Get 50+ free hybrid scans of leaves, twigs and stones
Download 53 'Atlases' of debris objects from Substance Source in .sbsar format. For commercial use.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Nvidia drops macOS support for CUDA
This week's 10.2 release of CUDA Toolkit, used by many GPU render engines, is the last to run on Macs.
Friday, November 22nd, 2019
Download 600+ free 4K texture sets from Share Textures
Updated: website provides sets of 4,096 x 4,096px textures of real-world materials via a CC0 licence.
Sunday, November 10th, 2019
Adobe ships After Effects 17.0
Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 16 Studio
Compositing app gets revamped UI and more GPU acceleration, but the free edition has been dropped.
Thursday, August 8th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Pixar releases Opensubdiv 3.4
Open-source subdivision library used in many DCC tools now supports same feature set for Loop and Catmull-Clark subdivision.
Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.7.1 and Affinity Designer 1.7.1
Updated: mainly bugfixes this time, but there is also some very cool integration with new page layout tool Affinity Publisher.
Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Apple unveils 'modular, flexible' new 2019 Mac Pro
Expansible new replacement for the old trash can design to ship this fall. Check out the key specs here.
Tuesday, June 4th, 2019
Allegorithmic releases Substance Alchemist 0.6
Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Download over 100 free Arnold materials from Visualact
Get 117 metal, plastic and ceramic materials as Maya scene files with 2,048px textures. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019