Leading visual effects software developer, The Foundry, today announced its merger with Luxology. The two companies are a great fit in terms of technology and markets. The combined portfolio will open doors to new ways of working, providing artists and designers with increased creative choice. The Foundry with its stable of award-winning 2D and 3D VFX software, including industry standard compositor NUKE, sees Luxology’s complementary technology as a natural addition. Luxology’s innovative 3D modelling and rendering technology and its flagship product, modo, are world class and favoured by thousands of artists and designers globally.

Autodesk has unveiled the powerful new Flame 20th Anniversary Edition software. The new software is part of Autodesk Flame Premium 2013, a high-end software toolset that integrates visual effects, editorial and real-time color grading. The new edition streamlines complex tasks and improves speed with a new creative workspace, top-level editorial timeline integration and an enhanced GPU pipeline.

The Foundry has announced Nuke 7.0 packed with a wide range of new features and substantial improvements and based on feedback from NUKE’s wide user base.

Speed improvements and optimised performance are at the core of the package, with NUKE 7.0 introducing RAM cache, a feature long desired by the community that offers real-time playback of work. Also debuting in this release are a variety of GPU accelerated nodes for the enhanced NUKEX package, including MotionBlur, Kronos, Denoise, VectorGenerator, Convolve and ZDefocus. This fundamental change promises that users will be able to utilise the power of their GPUs to speed up interactive image processing times.

Autodesk announced Autodesk Revit LT software, a new addition to its award winning family of Revit software products. Designed for architects, designers and building industry professionals using 2D workflows who are looking to transition to the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, Autodesk Revit LT software delivers a focused 3D application to help users create higher-quality and more accurate designs and documentation.