Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.3 for Maya

Maya edition of the renderer gets feature parity with 3ds Max; speed boosts of 20-50% on 'most scenes'.

Wednesday, March 2nd, 2016

See the hottest Blender tools in progress for 2016

Check out Blender.org's list of code branches to watch this year, from this nifty new fracture modifier to OpenVDB support.

Wednesday, January 6th, 2016

AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 3.0 for 3ds Max

Updated: New extension release gives the multiphysics plugin support for variable viscosity fluids and a new foam solver.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2015

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2016 Extension 2

Video: See the updates to the Max Creation Graph and new real-time decals workflow for the TextPlus tool.

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2015

Download Houdini Engine for 3ds Max

Get the binaries of Hideki Suzuki's free plugin for importing and editing Houdini content inside 3ds Max.

Monday, November 30th, 2015

Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 4.0 for 3ds Max

First update to top gaseous fluid simulator in three years boosts speed, adds new tools for art directing sims.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2015

Pixar launches RenderMan for Houdini

New bridge plugin ships out of the box with Houdini 15, and supports RenderMan's advanced features.

Friday, October 16th, 2015

Solid Angle releases Arnold 4.2.9

Core renderer gets support for refractive dispersion, better volumetrics. Maya plugin gets initial support for Bifrost.

Monday, September 21st, 2015

Blackcore releases ExplosiaFX for Softimage

New plugin lets users create voxel-based gaseous fluid effects using Softimage's ICE toolset.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2015

Solid Angle releases Arnold for Katana

KtoA plugin now officially shipping. Price of Arnold itself now down to $790 for a node-locked licence.

Friday, August 7th, 2015

Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015

Fluid simulator gets new GPU based solvers, better OpenVDB support, new artist and TD tools.

Friday, July 31st, 2015

Sneak peek: see the new features in RealFlow 2015

Updated: Watch videos of all the key features, including the new GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers and OpenVDB meshing.

Thursday, July 23rd, 2015

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for 3ds Max 3.20

New video: Service pack adds new VR cameras, GPU-based texture baking, option to render fluid sims.

Tuesday, June 9th, 2015