The Foundry releases Katana 2
Heavyweight lighting & look dev tool gets new public API, support for Lua scripting, improved performance.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
speed
Back the Krita Foundation's new Kickstarter campaign
€20,000 funding drive aims to make the open-source paint tool 'faster than Photoshop' on large images.
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Adobe unveils After Effects CC 2015
Neat update to improve core performance, and add new facial tracking and Project Animal 2D animation tools.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
iPi Soft ships iPi Motion Capture 3.0 product line
Updated: markerless mocap system now captures up to three actors from 4 Kinects or 16 PlayStation Eyes.
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015
LuxRender 1.4 ships
Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1
Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Eos Systems releases PhotoModeler 2015 line-up
Image-based modelling and measurement tools get speed boost of up to four times on complex jobs.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2014
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.8
Unbiased renderer gets object scattering, big speed boosts. Pure GPU rendering coming in version 4.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2
Now shipping: update to After Effects 3D rendering plugin adds PBR, SSS, raytraced shadows, and more.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
The Foundry ships Nuke 9, NukeX 9, Nuke Studio 9
New versions of the compositing tools now shipping. Price up slightly from Nuke 8, but down for NukeX.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Cool tech demo: the Project Proteus fluid simulator
Check out this physically based, 100% parallelised 'next-gen' fluid simulator, soon available in beta.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014