Animation studio Laika joins the Academy Software Foundation
Oscar-nominated studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings joins industry body promoting open-source tech.
Saturday, August 2nd, 2025
OpenTimelineIO
Get free VFX image viewer and video playback tool DJV 3
First update to the heavyweight open-source image viewer in five years adds support for OpenTimelineIO and USD.
Sunday, July 20th, 2025
Foundry releases Nuke 15.1, NukeX 15.1 and Nuke Studio 15.1
Compositing and editorial applications get new 3D 'Time Ops' features, and updates to BlinkScript, OpenAssetIO and the AI tools.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Sneak peek: Houdini 20.5
See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.
Friday, June 14th, 2024
Ynput releases Ayon 1.0
Open-source pipeline for VFX and animation work is now production-ready - and available in the cloud as well as to install locally for free.
Thursday, January 18th, 2024
ASWF adopts OpenImageIO
Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
Check out xStudio, DNEG's open-source playback tool
Updated: Epic Games has ported the high-performance shot review tool to Windows as well as Linux.
Monday, July 31st, 2023
Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX
VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.
Thursday, August 4th, 2022
ftrack ships cineSync 5.0
Major compatibility-breaking update to the remote shot review tool adds layers system and support for OCIO 2 and OTIO.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Nuke Indie 13.2
Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Autodesk ships RV 2022
VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Maxon, Tangent Animation join Academy Software Foundation
Cinema 4D and LoUPE developers become members of industry body to promote open-source VFX tech.
Monday, August 2nd, 2021