Nvidia unveils NeuralVDB

'Next evolution' of OpenVDB brings the power of AI to volumetric data, reducing the memory footprint of fluid simulations by up to 100x.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'

Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.

Tuesday, August 9th, 2022

ASWF adopts OpenAssetIO and OpenFX

VFX industry body to oversee development of open standards for plugins and asset management.

Thursday, August 4th, 2022

Otoy ships Sculptron 2022.1 in early access

Unusual GPU-based sculpting app gets new cloth sculpting system, plus tools for grooming hair and fur.

Friday, July 29th, 2022

AqMesher for 3ds Max gets new liquid solver

OpenVDB-based meshing plugin gets new GPU-accelerated, network-capable FLIP/PIC solver.

Friday, July 8th, 2022

Download 15 free smoke, fire and dust sims in VDB format

Get free FX elements simulated in EmberGen in CC0 format, including this seamlessly loopable tornado.

Sunday, April 17th, 2022

JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.7.5.5

Update to the real-time gaseous fluid simulator adds support for Wacom tablets, EXR backplates.

Thursday, March 17th, 2022

Cebas launches finalFluid for 3ds Max

Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.

Tuesday, March 15th, 2022

5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021

Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.

Monday, January 3rd, 2022

Otoy releases OctaneRender 2021.1

GPU production renderer gets new USD importer, Boolean clipping material, volumetric light linking.

Friday, October 29th, 2021

Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap

See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2

3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.

Tuesday, October 26th, 2021

Autodesk ships Arnold 7.0

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021