Dashing product manager, Ant Nascè (above), confirms release: 'It's been a busy year of development since we launched 1.0 back in March of this year, and we're now really excited to bring the new features of HIERO 1.5 to our customers. With Windows support, HIERO is now available on all three platforms with a host of bug fixes and new features, including playback of ARRIRAW and multi-channel EXRs, major viewer and media handling upgrades, and broadcast monitor out to enhance the review process. The HIERO journey has only just begun!'

Giving artists the power to playback every shot on the timeline, HIEROPLAYER is coming soon to put VFX work in context. Complementing HIERO and integrating with NUKE and the VFX pipeline, HIEROPLAYER gives artists access to the full HIERO project on their VFX workstation. Another problem saved by HIERO.

On 17th November, 21 gritty individuals from The Foundry will set out on the 2012 Men's Health Survival of the Fittest challenge, a grueling 10km course featuring 15 dastardly obstacles. Our heroes are raising money for Mental Health Research UK, an amazing charity dedicated to raising funds for research into the causes of mental illnesses in order to develop more effective treatments with fewer side-effects. Wish them well readers of The Compositor!

HIERO fought off stiff competition from Forger and Abobe's Photoshop Touch to claim the crown of 3D World's 2012 New Application Award.
This award recognises the best new content creation applications that have been released over the past year, which provide stable, useful and useable tools.