U-Render releases U-Render 2022.4 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new non-photorealistic rendering toolset, SSGI and multi-materials.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
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Maxon releases Trapcode Suite 18.1
Set of After Effects motion graphics plugins now runs on M1 Macs. Particular gets intial support for Layer Maps.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon ships Universe 6.1
Online library of effects for editing and compositing apps gets Box Bokeh, ChromaTown and Sketchify tools, plus new Stretch transition.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon ships VFX Suite 3.1
Suite of After Effects plugins for common visual effects tasks gets new physically based lens flare generation tool Real Lens Flares.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Magic Bullet Suite 16.1 ships
Maxon's colour correction tools for After Effects and Premiere Pro gets initial OCIO support, two new tools for creating light hazes in Looks.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5
Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2023
No changes to the digital sculpting and painting app beyond a new Linux installer, but the price of annual subscriptions is up again.
Monday, April 18th, 2022
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2023
Check out the workflow improvements in the new version of the character animation software.
Monday, April 18th, 2022
Download 15 free smoke, fire and dust sims in VDB format
Get free FX elements simulated in EmberGen in CC0 format, including this seamlessly loopable tornado.
Sunday, April 17th, 2022
Tutorial: master essential acting skills for animators
New Gnomon Workshop video reveals how to learn from method actors to improve your animation.
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2022.1
Physics-based animation software gets Constraints system for weapons, plus new Node Editor and Python API for technical artists.
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio, Nuke Indie 13.2
Compositing and editorial tools get support for NDI, OpenTimelineIO and new machine learning features.
Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Adobe releases After Effects 22.3
Sizeable update to the compositing app integrates Frame.io for free, adds native Apple Silicon support.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2022