December 28, 2013 | 2 comments
Try NewTek's innovative new tool for sculpting animation caches by hand. Works with most 3D packages. Read More »
December 17, 2013
Check out eight minutes of beautiful Houdini effects breakdowns from the epic Russian war movie. Read More »
December 9, 2013
The versatile technical director discusses the key skills for today's TDs, and his tips for young FX artists. Read More »
December 9, 2013
See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo. Read More »
December 2, 2013
Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh. Read More »
November 29, 2013 | 1 comment
Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud in real time with this Maya plugin. AE version to come. Read More »
November 26, 2013
Molecular add-on recreates Frozen's physics demo surprisingly accurately - albeit at much lower resolution. Read More »
November 21, 2013
See strange things simulated with CG snow in this video of the tech behind the new animated feature. Read More »
November 5, 2013
See ink 'running' under gravity when a Cintiq is tilted in this beautiful demo for the work-in-progress technology. Read More »
November 1, 2013
LightWave updates and new tool for sculpting animation caches now shipping. See new videos of all three. Read More »
October 31, 2013
Update adds cool new soft and hard body, particle and fluid simulation tools; more robust lighting workflow. Read More »
October 31, 2013 | 1 comment
New: final teaser shows better Bullet physics, Alembic-based lighting workflow. See all three videos here. Read More »
October 22, 2013
Check out impressive demos of the developer's new FLEX, Flame Works and GI Works real-time technologies. Read More »
October 21, 2013
Teaser for Crytek's Xbox One title combines simulation with stylised art direction to strikingly grim effect. Read More »
August 9, 2013
Maya crowd-simulation system gets option to scale crowd agents dynamically, new auto-avoid option. Read More »
August 5, 2013
Autodesk's Louis Marcoux posts an hour of free training on particle-based destruction and fluid effects. Read More »
July 24, 2013
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling. Read More »
July 23, 2013
New tool for sculpting animation caches lets users refine work or "paint out" simulation errors by hand. Read More »
July 22, 2013
Maya versions of the Frost point cloud meshing and XMesh geometry caching systems are on the way. Read More »
July 21, 2013
Open-source 3D package gets new modelling tools, improved smoke sims, up to 30% render speed boost. Read More »
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