Foundry releases Mari 7.0
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
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5 key features in Blender 4.0
Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.
Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
Foundry releases Katana 7.0
Heavyweight lighting and look dev software gets new Native USD framework to power up USD workflows. Live Rendering now 'up to twice as fast'.
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023
Foundry releases Nuke 15.0, NukeX 15.0, Nuke Studio 15.0
Check out the new features in the compositing and editorial software, including native Apple Silicon and OpenAssetIO support.
Friday, October 13th, 2023
Nvidia releases 2023.1 updates to Omniverse apps
Check out the new features in USD Composer 2023.1, USD Presenter 2023.1 and Audio2Face 2023.1.
Monday, August 7th, 2023
AWS releases Deadline 10.3
Free renderfarm manager now supports Unreal Engine 5, including the Movie Render Queue for visual effects, animation and visualisation.
Saturday, August 5th, 2023
Pixar ships RenderMan 25.2
Check out the new features in the heavyweight production renderer, including new compositing modes in the Stylized Looks NPR toolset.
Friday, June 30th, 2023
Foundry ships Flix 6.6
Check out the new features in the story development tool, including support for proxy servers and more reliable native version control.
Saturday, May 20th, 2023
Boris FX releases Mocha Pro 2023
Planar tracking app gets updates to roto, tracking and rendering to streamline work on complex shots.
Thursday, April 27th, 2023
Pixar releases RenderMan 25
Heavyweight VFX and animation renderer now includes Pixar's own AI-trained denoiser. Sizeable update to RenderMan XPU, too.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2023
Foundry ships Katana 6.0
Lighting and look dev software gets Material Soloing and performance profiling features to help troubleshoot complex VFX scenes.
Friday, December 16th, 2022
Foundry releases Mari 6.0
3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2022
Foundry releases Nuke 14.0
Major update to the compositing software adds complete new USD-based 3D system, plus free library of Nuke machine learning models.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022