The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.0
Open-source digital paint package gets cool new 2D animation toolset, with export to commercial apps.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
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Basefount ships Miarmy 4.7
Maya crowd-simulation tool now lets crowd agents float in water, or get up after being turned into ragdolls.
Friday, May 27th, 2016
Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 1070 and 1080 GPUs
Expected to be faster, cheaper and less power-hungry than the Titan X. How will they hold up for DCC work?
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016
The Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 10
Now shipping: Update adds multi-GPU support, better roto paint, new Smart Vector toolset in NukeX.
Thursday, April 28th, 2016
Adobe unveils After Effects CC 2015.3
Performance-focused update will include GPU-accelerated Gaussian Blur and Lumetri Color correction.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Autodesk releases Maya 2016 Extension 2
Videos: Update adds complete motion graphics toolset, new rigging tools and updates to Bifrost. See them in action here.
Tuesday, April 19th, 2016
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2017
Videos: See the new ART renderer, revamped UI, and updates to the UV and modelling tools in action here.
Monday, April 18th, 2016
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 5.0, RailClone 2.6
3ds Max scattering and modelling plugins get 'up to 100%' speed boost on V-Ray renders, new UI to manage large scenes.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.11
Big update to game engine includes new Sequencer cinematics editor. Source code for the upcoming VR Editor also available.
Wednesday, April 6th, 2016
NewTek previews LightWave 2016
Updated: See the new scene editor and a side-by-side performance comparison with LightWave 2015.
Tuesday, March 29th, 2016
Pixar unveils RenderMan 21
'Game-changing' update to renderer will feature GPU-accelerated Denoise, OSL support, new materials and lighting workflows.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Render Legion previews Corona 1.4 for 3ds Max
Next version of renderer to add adaptive image sampling, new denoising system. Cinema 4D version due this year.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016
Maxon working on new core architecture for Cinema 4D
Already partly rolled out in C4D R16 and R17, but the full switchover will take 'several more releases'.
Wednesday, February 17th, 2016