The Foundry ships Mari 3.2
Videos: Update to texture-painting tool makes the node graph more intuitive to use, adds new non-destructive Bake Point node.
Friday, December 16th, 2016
OpenEXR
FXhome ships HitFilm Pro 2017 and Ignite Pro 2017
All-in-one editing, compositing and VFX app gets 32-bit workflow, 8K res, new editing and grading tools.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Otoy releases OctaneRender 3.0
Now shipping: Long-awaited update to GPU renderer to add volumetrics, support for deep pixel compositing.
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Adobe ships After Effects and Premiere Pro 2015.1
Updated, now shipping: watch videos of the new features, including better UltraHD and gesture support.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2015
The GIMP team announces GIMP 2.9
Big update to open-source image-editing tool adds support for 32-bits-per-channel colour, OpenEXR files.
Monday, November 30th, 2015
FXhome releases Hitfilm 3 Express for free
Get a neat free edition of the editing, compositing and VFX tool. Limited to 1080p export, but licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Krita 2.9.4 ships
New update to the open-source painting app adds Photoshop-style layer styles, boosts performance.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Sad Cat Software releases Bloom 1.0
The non-destructive, PSD-friendly 16-bit image editor formerly known as Ormr gets its official release.
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Adobe unveils After Effects CC 2015
Neat update to improve core performance, and add new facial tracking and Project Animal 2D animation tools.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1
Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013