The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D

Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.

Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

Caustic Visualizer 1.1 for Maya adds batch rendering

Real-time raytracing plugin gets option to batch-render animations. Can be set to mimic the look of mental ray, too.

Tuesday, May 21st, 2013

AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.5

Low-cost crowd-simulation system for Max, Maya and Cinema 4D gets SSS material, overlay motion clips.

Friday, January 25th, 2013

The making of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo's titles

Watch a breakdown showing how Blur Studio created the oil-drenched 150-second opening sequence.

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Sneak peek: see Krakatoa MX 2.0 in action

Check out a brace of videos showing off the new hair support in Thinkbox's 3ds Max render engine.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Siggraph 2011: watch the five-minute rundown

All the highlights from the world's premier CG show, condensed into a handy coffee-break-sized info burst

Friday, August 12th, 2011

thinkingParticles 5 to feature a vehicle simulator

New release of cebas's increasingly more-than-just-particles plug-in will also add support for Bullet physics.

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Deadline to update Shotgun automatically

Leading render-management tool to integrate seamlessly with leading project-management software.

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011