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JangaFX releases EmberGen 1.1

See what's new in this big update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator, like the option to parent emitters to bones in characters.

Wednesday, January 24th, 2024

Marvelous Designer creator wins Sci-Tech Academy Award

3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Monday, January 15th, 2024

LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2023

Veteran 3D animation software gets its first update in over three years, following a change of owner in April. Check out its new features here.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2024.2

Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to Booleans, animation and USD for 3ds Max.

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

Foundry releases Katana 7.0

Heavyweight lighting and look dev software gets new Native USD framework to power up USD workflows. Live Rendering now 'up to twice as fast'.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

JangaFX ships EmberGen 1.0.7

Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Unreal Engine 5.3: five key features for CG artists

Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

ASWF adopts OpenImageIO

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

Otoy joins the Academy Software Foundation

OctaneRender developer joins VFX and movie industry body alongside CoreWeave and Bolt Graphics.

Friday, July 7th, 2023

5 key features in Blender 3.6

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from Simulation Nodes and GPU ray tracing to neat hidden bonuses.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023

Chaos releases Corona 10 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

New features in the renderer include updates to Corona Decal and improved volume rendering.

Friday, June 23rd, 2023

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

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