Scene Group releases Cavalry 2.4
Next-gen motion design software gets new noise shader and support for custom filters, plus the option to deform images using 2D meshes.
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
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Boris FX releases Particle Illusion Pro 2024.5
Particle generation tool for motion graphics and VFX gets support for particle blending modes, new set of Position Path Presets.
Friday, July 19th, 2024
Boris FX releases Particle Illusion Pro
Paid standalone edition of the 3D particle generator supersedes the old free edition, but can be run indefinitely in trial mode.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2024
Continuum 2023.5 ships
Check up the new features in the popular suite of effects plugins, including a sizeable update to particle generator Particle Illusion.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023
JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features in the first production release of the hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulator for games and VFX work.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
cebas releases finalFluid 1.0 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Boris FX makes Particle Illusion 2022.5 available free
Free standalone edition of the particle generator can now emit particles from imported 3D models.
Friday, August 19th, 2022
Sneak peek: EmberGen 1.0
Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2022
Continuum 2022.5 ships
Update to Boris FX's set of effects plugins for compositing apps adds the option to emit particles from 3D models inside Particle Illusion.
Friday, June 24th, 2022
Maxon releases Trapcode Suite 18.1
Set of After Effects motion graphics plugins now runs on M1 Macs. Particular gets intial support for Layer Maps.
Monday, April 25th, 2022
Maxon releases Trapcode Suite 17.1 for After Effects
See the new features in the latest update to Maxon's suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins.
Wednesday, September 15th, 2021
Continuum 2021.5 ships
Effects plugin suite for compositing apps gets new tools for creating 3D particle systems, plus nine new GPU-acclerated cinematic effects.
Friday, June 25th, 2021
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 16.0 for After Effects
Big update to the VFX and motion graphics plugins adds new physics and flocking controls in Particular 5.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020