Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0

Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.

Wednesday, April 11th, 2018

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.0

LightWave fluid simulatior gets new granular and viscous jet solvers, plus support for GPU acceleration.

Monday, March 5th, 2018

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

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

NewTek ships LightWave 2018

Now shipping: First update to LightWave in three years adds new PBR and volumetric renderer, plus new 3ds Max-style modifier stack.

Monday, January 1st, 2018

Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D

Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Foundry ships Nuke, NukeX and Nuke Studio 11.0

Compositing packages get OpenCL GPU acceleration on AMD GPUs, new live collaboration system.

Tuesday, July 25th, 2017

VDB Splicer lets you use Booleans with volumetrics

Interesting new LightWave plugin offers unusual ways to edit and resmesh simulation and scan data.

Thursday, July 6th, 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

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

Foundry releases Nuke 11 product family in beta

Speed and open standards focused update adds support for VFX Reference Platform 2017, extends GPU acceleration.

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

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2018

Update replaces the mental ray renderer with Arnold 5, adds new options for customising the interface and editing motion paths.

Thursday, April 13th, 2017