Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.2 for 3ds Max

Fluid simulation system gets internal self-illumination, simulation morphing controls, PRT and OpenVDB support.

Thursday, May 8th, 2014

Thinkbox Software unveils Stoke MX 2.0

Updated and now in open beta: high-density 3ds Max particle toolkit gets new field-manipulation tools.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2014

V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max now available in beta

Updated: Latest beta release adds new distributed rendering, subsurface scattering and proxy functionality.

Monday, November 4th, 2013

Side Effects Software ships Houdini 13

Update adds cool new soft and hard body, particle and fluid simulation tools; more robust lighting workflow.

Thursday, October 31st, 2013

Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence

Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.

Monday, August 19th, 2013

OpenEXR 2.0 released

Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Side Effects Software ships Houdini 12.5

Major update adds better ocean-surface sims and cloud sculpting via DreamWorks' OpenVDB technology.

Friday, March 15th, 2013