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
fluid simulation
Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out
Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.
Tuesday, December 17th, 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
Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 3.3 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Group test: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series and Super Series GPUs
Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.
Friday, August 30th, 2024
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs
Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
LiquiGen is now available to buy
JangaFX's real-time liquid simulator is now in public alpha. Check out the new features in LiquiGen 0.3, like whitewater and surface tension.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.2
Real-time smoke and fire simulator for games and VFX gets movable, parentable simulation domains, and live recording in the timeline.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
Check out 3ds Max multiphysics simulation plugin Aquarius 1.0
MagicPictures Software's node-based, GPU-accelerated tool can simulate smoke, liquids, sand, snow and mud. The Lite edition is free.
Friday, June 21st, 2024
Unreal Engine 5.4: five key features for CG artists
Read our pick of the new features in UE5, from Motion Graphics Mode and modular character rigging to virtual production and VFX.
Monday, April 29th, 2024
Cell Fluids 1.6 for Blender is out
Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
JangaFX releases LiquiGen 0.1
Much-anticipated real-time liquid simulator gets first public preview. See which features are in the initial alpha, and which are coming later.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2024