Blackmagic Design has announced the public beta of the free version of Fusion 8, the worlds most advanced visual effects and motion graphics software, is now available for download from the Blackmagic Design website. This beta is for the free version of Fusion 8 and is available for both Mac OS X and Windows.
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Blackmagic Design HAS announced Fusion 8 will be released on Mac OS X and Linux. Until now, Fusion has been a Windows only product, and with this new Fusion 8 release, it will now be available on all popular operating systems.

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The Foundry have acquired a very cool company called Made with Mischief, founded by Sarah Frisken. Inspired by a consulting project she did with Disney Animation, Sarah created Mischief, a fun, easy-to-use pen-based sketching application for Mac and Windows.
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) customers will now be able to pay as they go for all of the companys latest Design and Creation Suites, Autodesk 3ds Max, Autodesk Maya, and the new Autodesk Maya LT.
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Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has introduced Autodesk Maya LT 2014, a new 3D modeling and animation tool tailored for independent and mobile game developers. Available immediately and compatible with certain industry-standard game engines, Maya LT draws inspiration from award-winning Autodesk Maya software to bring an intuitive, affordable new toolset for the creation of professional-grade 3D mobile, PC and web-based game assets.
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Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, has announced a merger with US-based technology company, Luxology LLC, for an undisclosed sum. The Foundry's portfolio of VFX software includes Sci-Tech Award® winning technology and is used to create breathtaking effects sequences on a wide range of features, television projects and commercials. High profile examples include the 2012 Oscar® winners, HUGO (Best Visual Effects) and Rango (Best Animated Feature Film) as well as the Emmy® award-winning Boardwalk Empire.
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Mac professionals will benefit from dramatically improved graphics performance and productivity with the announcement of the NVIDIA® Quadro® K5000 for Mac Pro systems.Based on NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture -- the world's fastest, most efficient GPU design -- the Quadro K5000 for Mac is the most powerful professional-class GPU ever for the Macintosh, delivering unprecedented visualization and computation capabilities for designers and digital content creators.

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Today, MAXON unveiled CINEMA 4D Release 14, (R14) a milestone release of the industry-leading 3D motion graphics, visual effects, painting, and rendering software application. Leveraging more than two decades of 3D graphics programming innovation, R14 delivers breakthrough performance offerings including a new, fully integrated sculpting system, new camera matching functionality, the debut of exchange plugins to two key applications
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