simulation

AXYZ design ships anima 5.0

Crowd simulation system for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and UE5 gets new AI-based 'neural crowds' engine, and physical motion blur.

Monday, October 3rd, 2022

Insydium releases NeXus

New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2023.2

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Blender 3.3 LTS ships

See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023

3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022

Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

JangaFX releases GTV 2.0

Download the free, newly GPU-accelerated tool for browsing textures and sprite sheets, like those generated by EmberGen.

Friday, July 29th, 2022