Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.1

See the crazy motion graphics effects created by the renderer's distance shader, supported in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Houdini & Maya.

Thursday, March 30th, 2023

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2024

3D modelling and rendering app gets new Boolean modifier, new material nodes, enhanced animation tools, and OCIO support.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

DreamWorks open-sources its MoonRay renderer

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max

Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

ZibraAI unveils Zibra VDB Compression

Upcoming AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 20 times" for use in Unity and UE5.

Thursday, December 15th, 2022

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.1

3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.

Thursday, November 10th, 2022

cebas releases finalFluid 1.0 for 3ds Max

GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.6

Landscape generation software can now export clouds to other DCC apps in OpenVDB format.

Friday, November 4th, 2022

cebas releases finalRender Drop 6 for 3ds Max

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

cebas releases thinkingParticles 7.2

3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets new ME-L scripting language for manipulating OpenVDB data.

Monday, September 19th, 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

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

Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022