Foundry closes Athera
All-in-one production platform pitched as a complete visual effects studio in the cloud shuts just 18 months after its commercial launch.
Thursday, November 7th, 2019
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Chaos Czech ships Corona Renderer 5 for 3ds Max
Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Foundry ships Mari 4.6
Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.
Wednesday, November 6th, 2019
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2019.1
Next-gen material authoring tool now out of beta. First official release adds new delighter filter.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
Adobe ships Dimension 3.0
Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Adobe ships After Effects 17.0
Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Adobe changes licensing for Substance products
Subcriptions include Substance Alchemist 1.0, but perpetual licences cut to Steam editions of Painter and Designer.
Monday, November 4th, 2019
Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap
Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
F12 ships The Grove Release 8
Major update to the biologically plausible tree-generation tool adds the option to record timelapse animations of your trees growing.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
AWS Thinkbox releases Deadline 10.1
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.
Thursday, October 17th, 2019
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9
3D clothing design tool gets support for GPU simulation, new brush-based subdivision system.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019