ftrack releases ftrack 2.0
Low-cost production-tracking system gets extensive overhaul, better compatibility with Nuke and Hiero.
Thursday, September 26th, 2013
UI
Abvent releases Artlantis 5
Architectural renderer gets new UI, material catalog and preview options, plus tools to build VR objects.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2013
Massive Software unveils Massive 6.0, Massive for Maya
Crowd-simulation system to get new UI, support for Bullet physics - and a new dedicated Maya edition.
Friday, August 2nd, 2013
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 5.1
Production-management system gets cleaner UI, handy workflow tweaks. Watch a bite-size video tour.
Monday, July 8th, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.0
Renderfarm manager gets intuitive new graph view, MongoDB backend, built-in cloud management tools.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 5.0
Production-management system gets new simple UI designed to let users filter out key tasks quicker.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
3D-Coat 4.0 in open beta
Try the update to the voxel sculpting and retopology app today on Windows: Mac and Linux to follow.
Monday, October 8th, 2012
Andersson Technologies unveils SynthEyes 1208
Affordable camera tracker gets new UI and node-based solver set-up, new 'two-track' release schedule.
Friday, August 3rd, 2012
Autodesk unveils Scaleform for Unity and mobile
New releases to bring the games UI-design tool to Unity and Flash developers, for $295 per seat.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Ephere releases teaser video for Zookeeper 2.0
See the next update to the 3ds Max 'scene-taming' plugin make short work of a heavy production asset.
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
GIMP 2.8 released
Open-source image editor gets new UI and tools and... sweet Jesus, is that really a single-window mode?
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Autodesk unveils retooled Smoke 2013 for Mac
Price of radically reworked all-in-one editing and visual effects 'super app' slashed from $15k to just $3,495.
Monday, April 16th, 2012
Lightmap previews HDR Light Studio 3.5
Light your model by clicking on its surface to position highlights with this nifty real-time lighting toolset.
Thursday, April 12th, 2012