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

yVR lets you view VR projects on your mobile in real time

New live linking tool lets you view VR scenes in 3ds Max or Houdini on a mobile device or remote PC.

Monday, May 22nd, 2017

Autodesk to discontinue perpetual licences of Arnold

Firm reverses its policy on acquiring the renderer from Solid Angle last April, moves to rental-only pricing.

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

YCDIVFX releases Nyx Sidekick

Now shipping: New €90 live-linking tool turns Houdini into an 'effects co-processor' for 3ds Max.

Sunday, May 7th, 2017

Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool

Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017

Foundry unveils Elara

New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.

Tuesday, April 25th, 2017

Solid Angle ships Arnold 5

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Ziva Dynamics releases free trial of Ziva VFX for Maya

Test the Maya skin and muscle system used on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for free.

Monday, April 10th, 2017

Redshift team to make Redshift available on Macs

Popular GPU-based renderer coming to OS X. Maya version to ship first, with Cinema 4D and Houdini to follow.

Thursday, April 6th, 2017

Sneak peek: Arnold 5

See new features due in the next release of the renderer, including a physically based hair shader, better volumetrics, and support for OSL.

Friday, March 31st, 2017

NewTek previews LightWave Next

Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.

Thursday, March 16th, 2017

Watch VFX breakdowns of the 2017 VES Award winners

Discover how this year's best VFX projects were created, from The Jungle Book to Game of Thrones.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2017

The 10 best visual effects breakdowns of 2016

Watch our pick of the best movie, TV and commercials breakdown videos created in the past year.

Wednesday, January 4th, 2017