Autodesk releases Flame 2025
Compositing and effects software gets new tools for matching film grain and managing lens distortion. See all the new features here.
Friday, April 12th, 2024
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Boris FX releases Sapphire 2023.5
Check out the new features in the suite of effects plugins for compositing and editing software.
Saturday, April 15th, 2023
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2022.5
Suite of effects plugins gets more lens flares and light leaks; multi-GPU support in DaVinci Resolve.
Saturday, May 28th, 2022
Get ActionVFX and FILMPAC's free Inferno Collection
Free asset pack for the Inferno Challenge art contest includes nine 2K effects clips of fire and smoke. Commercial use.
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
Boris FX ships Sapphire 2021.5
Effects plugins for compositing and editing apps get native support for Apple's M1 processors and multi-frame rendering in After Effects.
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Download ActionVFX's three free stock effects collections
Get over 50 free After Effects camera shake presets, and 2K ProRes portal and bullet FX clips.
Sunday, December 13th, 2020
SideFX ships Houdini 18.5
Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Boris FX ships Sapphire 2020.5
Check out the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins for editing and composing software.
Saturday, May 30th, 2020
Check out Coiffure, a neat Maya add-on for real-time hair
Updated: Version 1.1 of TD Florian Croquet's tool for converting XGen hair to hair cards now works for feathers as well.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0
'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.
Friday, July 19th, 2019
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.3
Photogrammetry app gets 'knife cut' tool for cleaning up meshes; neat option to generate blueprints automatically for 3D buildings.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.0
Big update to image-based modelling tool improves speed and accuracy of mesh generation, adds new camera calibration manger.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018