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Maya crowd simulation tool gets new USD procedural plugin, plus morphology variation for crowd characters, skinned animated fur.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

New Cinema 4D edition of the popular hair, fur and feather simulation plugin works with both Arnold and Redshift out of the box.

Tuesday, January 7th, 2020

Performance-focused update adds new 2.5D displacement system and new hair materials to the renderer.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Renderer's fast, intuitive new system aims to make caustics a 'mainstream effect' in production.

Friday, May 17th, 2019

Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019

Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.

Monday, October 15th, 2018

Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.

Monday, June 11th, 2018

Now shipping: renderer gets new dedicated camera, skin and hair shaders, 300 readymade materials.

Wednesday, October 25th, 2017

Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017

The Blur Studio artist discusses his award-winning short, The Legion, and new CG project The Vikings.

Tuesday, July 18th, 2017

Hair, fur and feathers plugin can now generate hair from particles. New grooming and LOD workflows.

Friday, March 3rd, 2017

Popular 3ds Max hair plugin now out for Maya. Supports Nucleus physics and Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and RenderMan rendering.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

Updated, now shipping: 3ds Max hair plugin gets new groom preset system, plus better brush tools, MassFX dynamics, Alembic export.

Wednesday, November 18th, 2015