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
VFX Reference Platform
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
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 18.1
Compositing software gets support for AI-based Magic Mask system and more GPU-accelerated tools.
Monday, November 14th, 2022
Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform
Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2022.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools get new planar UV projection mode, Python 3 scripting, Apple Silicon support.
Thursday, September 1st, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.2
Material authoring app gets native M1 support. See what else is new, and what has been deprecated.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2022
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro 2022.5
Planar tracker gets new set of non-destructive video preprocessing tools to help solve tricky shots.
Monday, May 2nd, 2022