The Foundry releases Windows beta of Hiero
New VFX shot-management tool now available on all three major OSs. Add-on shot viewer planned.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
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The Pixel Farm announces PFDepth
PFTrack developer to debut nifty off-the-shelf tool for post-converting mono footage to stereo 3D at NAB.
Thursday, April 5th, 2012
The Foundry releases Nuke and NukeX 6.3v7
Compositing apps gain support for importing layered PSD files and the new OpenColorIO open standard.
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
The Foundry releases Mari 1.4v3
Update to the paint app adds texture replication options, navigation presets to mimic Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
The Foundry ships Hiero
Hard-to-pigeonhole VFX shot management and review tool is "******* brilliant", say beta testers.
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The Foundry launches 95% educational discount
New deal enables students and teachers to rent NukeX, Mari and the upcoming Hiero for $250 per year.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
The Foundry releases Hiero in free open beta
Test the VFX project management and shot review tool before the price goes up to $5,000 this February.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
The Foundry ships Mari 1.4
Latest update to 3D paint tool adds support for layered PSDs, triplanar texture projection and OpenColorIO.
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
The Foundry ships Ocula 3.0
Set of Nuke stereo workflow plug-ins gets major update, including new retiming and focus-matching tools.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Foundry releases Katana 1.0
Former Imageworks in-house technology ships as commercial look dev tool: ILM among first users.
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
Eye candy: The Foundry's 2011 demo reel
Watch mind-blowing new things created in Nuke and Mari pop and flash to the strains of Underworld.
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
The Foundry builds new Mari-to-Nuke bridge
Free Mari 1.3v2 update speeds up matte painting and clean-up work by up to 30%, developer estimates.
Friday, July 1st, 2011
The Foundry ships Mari 1.3: now with Ptex support
Latest update to 3D painting tool also adds displacement preview, environment mapping.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011