September 19, 2022
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising. Read More »
August 25, 2022
Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a full motion graphics and multiphysics toolkit. Read More »
August 17, 2022
Hardware-accelerated ray tracer gets new NPR render modes. Runs on AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs. Read More »
August 9, 2022
'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x. Read More »
July 21, 2022
Read a detailed run-down of new features in the procedural 3D app, including updates to simulation, creature effects, Solaris and Karma. Read More »
July 18, 2022
See a full list of new features in the next version of Houdini, including updates to creature effects, fluid simulation, Solaris and Karma. Read More »
July 13, 2022
Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer. Read More »
July 12, 2022
Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'. Read More »
July 6, 2022
Popular add-on for baking fluid simulations to flipbooks and flowmaps in UE4 and UE5 is free during July 2022. Read More »
May 27, 2022
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya editions of the fluid simulation software, and its new Phoenix Standalone Simulator. Read More »
May 26, 2022
Standalone granular fluid, liquid and smoke simulation tool now supports cloth and soft bodies. Read More »
May 10, 2022
EmberGen creator's hotly tipped upcoming real-time liquid simulator now generates foam and spray. Read More »
May 3, 2022
Free asset pack for the Inferno Challenge art contest includes nine 2K effects clips of fire and smoke. Commercial use. Read More »
April 17, 2022
Get free FX elements simulated in EmberGen in CC0 format, including this seamlessly loopable tornado. Read More »
April 12, 2022
GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta. Read More »
March 17, 2022
Update to the real-time gaseous fluid simulator adds support for Wacom tablets, EXR backplates. Read More »
March 15, 2022
Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta. Read More »
February 18, 2022
Cinematic effects plugin for Photoshop gets over 1,500 preset particle effects, plus native Metal and M1 support for Mac users. Read More »
January 9, 2022
Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use. Read More »
December 28, 2021
Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use. Read More »
