Next Limit announces RealFlow RenderKit 2.5
Free patch adds new Cinema 4D plugin, plus support for RenderMan volumetrics. Updated: now shipping!
Friday, March 9th, 2012
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Jawset Visual Computing releases TurbulenceFD
As seen on Terra Nova: hybrid gaseous fluid simulator for Cinema 4D and LightWave gets full release.
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Matte Painting | February
Theme: Game of Thrones
1st Place: Guillemhp
2nd Place: Ethax
3rd Place: Advantasy
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Phoenix FD for Maya enters beta testing
V-Ray for Maya users can sign on for early access to Chaos Group's formerly Max-only fluid simulator.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Xfrog launches user forum
Sign up today to get 'tons of free models and tutorials' from the plant-generation software developer.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Pixologic releases free ZBrush 4R3 update
Updated: now shipping, adding lots of cool new tools including the NoiseMaker plugin.
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Hugo, Rango triumph at the 2012 Academy Awards
Read making-of articles about them and winning short The Fantastic Flying Books of Morris Lessmore.
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
xaitment releases xaitMap and xaitControl for Unity
Middleware developer releases its games AI toolsets as inexpensive Unity plugins.
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Get XParticles: XPresso-free particle sims for Cinema 4D
Developers Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor release their versatile alternative to Thinking Particles.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.2 for Maya
Latest update to crowd-simulation system adds support for Linux and the render engine of your choice.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
AGF Multimedia releases DarkCorner for After Effects
GPU-accelerated plugin calculates ambient occlusion from the Z-depth data embedded in your renders.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Evermotion adds instancing to NOX render engine
Latest update to the free unbiased renderer for 3ds Max and Blender rewrites entire geometry engine.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Unity Technologies ships Unity 3.5
Over 400 new features, updates and bugfixes, including Flash export and new 'Shuriken' particle system.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012