Anima 6.0 adds traffic simulation to Chaos's crowd animation tool

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Get versions of the free Thinkbox tools that work with 3ds Max 2026

Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4

Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025

Check out virtual cinematography tool Radical VCam

New tool lets you control any camera inside a shared, browser-based 3D scene using a phone or tablet. Can be used for free.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Chaos launches Chaos Arena

'First ever path-tracing solution' for virtual production lets studios render existing V-Ray assets on LED walls in real time for in-camera VFX.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.1

Check out the latest features in the production renderer, including toon shading on GPU, and new HTML viewer for render statistics.

Friday, March 28th, 2025

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2026

Check out the latest changes to the 3D modeling and rendering app, including updates to retopology, shading and animation.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Autodesk adds Golaem 9.2 to its Media & Entertainment Collection

Maya crowd simulation plugin goes back on sale as part of Autodesk's product bundle for VFX and games work. Check out its new features.

Wednesday, March 26th, 2025

Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 5.2

Check out the latest features in the popular Maya fur and feathers plugin, including new nodes for resolving intersections.

Monday, March 24th, 2025

Wonder Studio becomes Autodesk Flow Studio

AI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.

Friday, March 14th, 2025

Polygonflow releases Dash 1.9

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

Get KitBash3D's Gaea fantasy architecture asset pack for free

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

Wednesday, March 12th, 2025

Check out neat AI-trained hand mocap tool HandCraft Pro

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025