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Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.

Saturday, August 5th, 2023

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Autodesk buys the Blender-friendly cloud-based production pipeline system, and hires the developers that created it at Tangent Labs.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2021

Tech giant's donation ensures at least €360,000 in funding to overhaul Blender's animation tools.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Neat app auto-detects common 3ds Max plugins and performs 'sanity checks' to fix common V-Ray and Corona errors.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2020

Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services.

Thursday, October 17th, 2019

Standalone pipeline tool lets studios build new VFX, game dev and machine learning workflows around Houdini's new PDG tech.

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Renderfarm management tool gets fast new Postgres-based backend architecture. Supervisor licences now free to download and use.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Open-source app handles common asset and render management tasks. Integrates with Blender, Max, Maya, Houdini, Nuke.

Sunday, April 29th, 2018

Renderer gets improved support for HiDPI displays and option to export metadata in XMP format, plus integration with Deadline.

Thursday, January 25th, 2018