Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 7 for free
No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
price drop
Mixamo launches Starter and Indie pricing plans
$50/month gets you ten animations, plus access to the character creator, facial mocap and decimation tools.
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2014
Fluid simulator adds viscosity, new Ocean Force daemon, support for the Arnold renderer. Price down too.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Autodesk launches Maya LT on Steam
Updated: rental price cut to $30 per month. Annual rental cut from $400 to $240 in Autodesk's own store.
Monday, June 9th, 2014
Pixar to make RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Unrestricted free version due this summer. Price of commercial version cut to just $495, effective now.
Friday, May 30th, 2014
AAA Studio cuts price of FurryBall by a third
Cost of a licence of the GPU-accelerated renderer for Maya and 3ds Max down to €599 ($820).
Monday, May 19th, 2014
Next Limit to cut price of RealFlow
RealFlow 2014 will add new $2,500 node-locked licence type and make Realflow RenderKit free to use.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Science.D.Visions releases €499 version of 3DEqualizer4
Foundation edition makes high-end matchmover accessible to students. Full version gets an update, too.
Wednesday, January 15th, 2014
Andersson Technologies releases SynthEyes 1311
Affordable match-moving tool gets 3D planar tracker, better scripting support. Pricing cut still further.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Unity makes Android and iOS add-ons free to use
Pricing for the game engine's mobile add-ons cut from $400 to nothing if you're an indie developer.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
AAA Studio cuts educational price of FurryBall to €99
Students and teachers can now get a copy of the GPU-accelerated Maya renderer for under $130 a year.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
The Foundry cuts prices of Nuke and Hiero
Down 15% to $4,155 in the case of Nuke; down 30% to $5,065 for Hiero. Maintenance fees up slightly.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013