Storm HydroFX 1.0 is a GPU-based standalone FLIP fluid simulator
Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
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Get standalone GPU FLIP fluid solver Storm HydroFX free in beta
Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.
Monday, December 1st, 2025
Boris FX ships Optics 2022.5
Cinematic effects plugin for Photoshop can now render particle animations over still images to create looping cinemagraphs.
Monday, October 10th, 2022
U-Render releases U-Render 2021.9 for Cinema 4D
Physically based 'really real-time' renderer gets new Sheen effect to mimic the look of real-world fabrics.
Thursday, September 16th, 2021
Deep FX Studio 1.3 ships
Check out the new features in Deep FX World's standalone multiphysics simulation and procedural animation software.
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
Reallusion releases Character Creator 3.4
Real-time 3D character-creation tool gets new Smart Hair system of modular hairstyles and facial hair.
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
Octane X is now available in the Mac App Store
Metal-native GPU renderer is now free for a year on any Mac capable of running macOS 11.2 Big Sur.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Uppercut releases U-Render 2020.9 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' renderer gets new color correction filter. Now fully integrated into the C4D viewport.
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021
Filter Forge 10.0 ships
Tool for authoring Photoshop filters and converting images into PBR texture maps gets new projects system, and new lower pricing.
Friday, January 15th, 2021
Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 6 for Cinema 4D
Renderer gets neat new sky model, new distance map and V-Ray-style adaptive environment sampling.
Wednesday, August 26th, 2020
Check out open-source auto-retopology tool AutoRemesher
New app from Dust3D developer Jeremy Hu turns source meshes into uniform all-quad geometry.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Boris FX's new Optics app gives 'VFX for photographers'
New Photoshop plugin and standalone image-editing app includes key filters from Sapphire.
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2020