Chaos releases Phoenix 5.2

Check out the new features in the 3ds Max and Maya fluid simulator, including new options for directing liquids. Sims now 'up to 20%' faster.

Wednesday, July 12th, 2023

Tutorial: Large-Scale Water FX in Houdini

Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.

Saturday, July 8th, 2023

Discover 10 key new features from Blender 2.92

Discover the most important new tools in the open-source 3D app, from geometry nodes to APIC sims.

Thursday, February 25th, 2021

Insydium ships the X-Particles 2020 update

Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.

Saturday, July 4th, 2020

Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X

See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.

Thursday, May 28th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82

Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.

Friday, February 14th, 2020

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.5

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets new foam and white water system; improved memory usage.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya

Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.

Friday, February 16th, 2018

SideFX releases Houdini 16.5

Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.

Tuesday, November 7th, 2017

Deep FX ships Deep Rising FX 1.2 for LightWave

Affordable new particle-based fluid simulation plugin adds support for Bullet dynamics, OBJ mesh export.

Thursday, June 1st, 2017

Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 3.0 for 3ds Max

Big update to fluid simulator adds new FLIP liquids solver; new options for art directing and retiming sims.

Friday, September 16th, 2016

AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 4

Fast-evolving 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets revamped FLIP fluid, cloth and FEM solvers, better V-Ray support, plus more streamlined UI.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2016

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.3

3ds Max physics plugin gets better liquid simulation and particle caching, plus support for Alembic.

Thursday, March 24th, 2016