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GPU-accelerated ambient occlusion plugin now compatible with After Effects CS5 and up on OS X Lion.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2012

Download a free two-thread version of the Nuke look development, lighting and rendering toolset today.

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

New package provides stereoscopic production and optical flow tools for the node-based compositing app.

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Artist-friendly Maya crowd simulator gains support for mental ray rendering, new instancing tools.

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Atmospheric plugin for all major DCC apps gains new cloud-editing tools and improved render speed.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Deal will not change roadmap or licence terms for offline version of Octane Render, says developer.

Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

Free patch adds new Cinema 4D plugin, plus support for RenderMan volumetrics. Updated: now shipping!

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Make better use of the open-source data-interchange format in 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and more.

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Stream motion-capture data directly into Maya for editing and retargeting with the newly rechristened plugin.

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Updated: now shipping, adding lots of cool new tools including the NoiseMaker plugin.

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

Middleware developer releases its games AI toolsets as inexpensive Unity plugins.

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Developers Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor release their versatile alternative to Thinking Particles.

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012