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

Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3

Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.

Saturday, December 10th, 2022

Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 2022

Foundry ships Katana 5.0

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

SideFX releases Houdini 19

Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.

Wednesday, October 27th, 2021

Isotropix ships Clarisse 5.0

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Autodesk ships Flame 2022

Compositing, finishing and effects software gets new machine-learning-based camera tracker, NDI support for remote review sessions.

Wednesday, April 14th, 2021

Foundry reveals its 2021 Mari product roadmap

3D texturing app to get Python 3 support, new USD workflows and updated brush engine, but macOS edition cancelled.

Friday, March 19th, 2021

Tech focus: Nuke's AIR machine learning framework

Neat toolset lets VFX artists train their own neural networks to automate repetive tasks like roto.

Thursday, March 18th, 2021

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX, Nuke Studio & Nuke Indie 13.0

Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Autodesk ships RV 2021

Image viewer and shot playback tool for VFX and animation gets support for Python 3, new long-term Available Previous Versions.

Thursday, November 5th, 2020

Maxon ships Cinema 4D R23

Major update to Cinema 4D adds new character animation tools, better UV editing, and integrates the $399 Magic Bullet Looks suite.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2020