January 4, 2023
Volumetric rendererer and particle tools for 3ds Max and Maya now free via an Apache 2.0 licence. Read More »
August 3, 2022
Deadline, Kratatoa and the other five former Thinkbox Software products are now free to download. Read More »
April 29, 2021
New service lets users set up a complete production studio in the cloud. See the price, specs and supported software. Read More »
April 29, 2021
AWS's popular renderfarm manager now runs in Licence Free Mode on farms with 10 Render Workers. Read More »
October 17, 2019
Render manager now scales to thousands of slave machines. Free to use on Amazon Web Services. Read More »
August 8, 2019
Avatar VFX producer's cloud-based tool for planning and tracking budgets for visual effects projects adds support for episodic series. Read More »
July 25, 2018
Avatar VFX producer Joyce Cox's new online platform provides a smarter way to cost out VFX shows. Read More »
March 9, 2017
Render farm manager gets a range of new security features; support for KeyShot, Altus and Silhouette. Read More »
March 8, 2017
Buyout of Deadline and Krakatoa developer will bolster Amazon Web Services' cloud rendering offerings. Read More »
October 3, 2016
New version of heavy-duty particle meshing tool boosts speed up to 2x, improves V-Ray compatibility. Read More »
August 30, 2016
Heavy-duty particle renderer for 3ds Max and Maya gets faster, more controllable DoF and motion blur. Read More »
August 3, 2016
We round up over 30 of the key new tools to be announced at the show, from full 3D packages to plugins. Read More »
August 1, 2016
Unique new cloud-based platform for budgeting VFX projects is based on system used on films like Avatar. Read More »
July 13, 2016
Rent licences of the renderfarm manager on the fly; pay per minute at a rate equivalent to $0.10/hour. Read More »
May 5, 2016
Thinkbox Software offers free hours of the renderfarm manager in May to trial Deadline 8's new on-demand licensing system. Read More »
December 3, 2015
Updated, now shipping: Standalone tool coverts ultra-dense point cloud data into production-ready meshes. Read More »
October 2, 2015
Renderfarm-management tool gets new file-conversion options, support for the NIM production tracker. Read More »
July 15, 2015
Updated: v7's new wizard for setting up cloud-based renderfarms now available for Google Cloud Platform and Amazon EC2. Read More »
April 21, 2015
We round up the tools most relevant to CG Channel readers: from VFX software to plugins & pipeline apps. Read More »
June 4, 2014
Increasingly versatile simulation tool now incorporates firm's $595 Genome geometry modifier. Read More »
