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Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.6

3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.

Thursday, February 8th, 2018

Luxion ships KeyShot 7.2

Renderer gets improved support for HiDPI displays and option to export metadata in XMP format, plus integration with Deadline.

Thursday, January 25th, 2018

Chaos Group releases Beta 1 of V-Ray Next for 3ds Max

Updated: Find more info on the new light cache analysis-based 'smart features' like auto exposure.

Monday, January 22nd, 2018

Gnomon releases Vehicle Modeling for Production

Master hard-surface modeling in Maya with Psyop veteran James Schauf's detailed eight-hour guide.

Friday, January 19th, 2018

Q&A: Atoms Crowd co-creator Daniele Federico

We chat to the former Framestore pipeline developer about his promising new Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool.

Wednesday, January 17th, 2018

J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5

Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.

Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2017

Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by our 125,000 Facebook followers.

Tuesday, January 9th, 2018

Alexey Vanzhula ships Direct Modeling HDA for Houdini

Neat hard surface modeling toolkit adds MeshFusion-style real-time Booleans, new insert mesh system.

Monday, January 8th, 2018

Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads

Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.

Sunday, December 24th, 2017

Autodesk discontinues Stingray

Sales of the game engine to stop on 7 January 2018, but the last release will still be bundled with Maya LT 'for now'.

Friday, December 15th, 2017

Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini

Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.

Thursday, December 14th, 2017

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0

Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.

Friday, December 8th, 2017