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Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini

Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.

Friday, April 18th, 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

5 key features in Blender 4.4

Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.

Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

Check out the new features due in EmberGen 2.0

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

Thursday, December 19th, 2024

Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 19.1

Update to the 3D compositing app extends USD and OCIO workflow, and adds new options for toggling between inputs in compositions.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 19.1

Discover the key features for VFX artists and colorists in the free grading and editing software and its $295 Studio edition.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2024.1

3D modeling and animation software gets new tools for copying and pasting animations, and for controlling depth of field in renders.

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

ZibraVDB: real-time volumetric rendering in virtual production

[Sponsored] Discover how Zibra AI aims to revolutionize CGI with its volumetric compression technology for Unreal Engine and Houdini

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025

Check out the latest features in the 3D animation and motion graphics app. Redshift GPU renderer now bundled with every subscription.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2024

Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB

Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

NVIDIA unveils fVDB

New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

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Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2025.3

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Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.1

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