Chaos releases Chaos Player Update 1
Image sequence viewer gets new Contacts Sheet system for viewing render elements and shot variants.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
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Boris FX ships Mocha VR 5.6
Free update to the planar tracking tool for 360-degree footage adds support for stereoscopic workflows, improved horizon stabilisation.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta
New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Foundry ships Cara VR 2.0
Nuke plugin toolset for streamlining common tasks on VR projects gets new stereo tools based on Ocula, plus support for 3D match-moving.
Monday, December 4th, 2017
innoBright ships Altus 1.9
Standalone render denoising tool gets streamlined full-screen GUI. CUDA version dropped in favour of 'faster, more reliable' OpenCL.
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.18
Game engine gets support for Google's ARCore AR system, better lightmapping and media playback.
Thursday, October 26th, 2017
Mettle ships Mantra VR
Intriguing new After Effects and Premiere Pro plugin enables users to apply 16 stylised procedural effects to 360-degree VR footage.
Tuesday, September 19th, 2017
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds new standalone image editor for EXRs, improves sampling, relighting and distributed rendering.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
The Pixel Farm releases PFTrack 2017
Biggest update to the camera tracker in five years extends the photogrammetry tools, integrates PFDepth for free.
Tuesday, January 17th, 2017
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 12.5.4
Free update to grading app adds Touch Bar support on MacBook Pros; improves HDR workflow.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2016
The Lytro Cinema system: the next revolution in VFX?
Could new high-end light field movie cameras eliminate greenscreen work? CG Channel investigates.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2016
Blackmagic Design ships Fusion 8, Fusion 8 Studio
Now officially shipping: formerly Windows-only compositor now available on Mac. Linux version due later this year.
Friday, April 1st, 2016
Next Limit releases Maxwell Render 3.2
Updated, now shipping: Sizeable update to renderer adds features from faster SSS to light-emitting fur.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2015