Zibra AI launches new real-time VFX technology ZibraGDS
New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, July 9th, 2026
cloth simulation
See amazing demo videos of Wētā FX's in-house simulation tools
See videos of key tools used on the Avatar sequels, including the Loki multiphysics framework and Pahi fluid simulation pipeline.
Monday, May 18th, 2026
tyFlow 2.0 now simulates smoke and fire as well as particles
Popular 3ds Max particle and multiphysics add-on for VFX and motion graphics gets neat new GPU-based Zenith fluid engine.
Thursday, March 5th, 2026
Vjaceslav Tissen releases Simply Cloth Studio 2.0 for Blender
Check out the new features in the latest version of the popular lightweight cloth simulation and 3D garment design add-on for Blender.
Monday, January 19th, 2026
Poser 14 is out
Update to the veteran figure-posing software streamlines materials and environment workflow, but removes the Cloth Room and macOS edition.
Monday, January 5th, 2026
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.0
Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3
Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Assetify 2.1 converts Blender assets to game-ready formats
Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
Tutorial: Dynamic Cloth Simulation for Production
Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.
Sunday, March 2nd, 2025
Tutorial: Introduction to Marvelous Designer
Get started with the industry-standard tool for creating clothing for 3D characters with The Gnomon Workshop's beginners' guide.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2024.2
Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11
Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.
Saturday, October 12th, 2024