AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.4 for Blender

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets experimental new 'next gen' mode with support for out-of-core geometry.

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

EmberGen is now in beta

JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.

Monday, May 4th, 2020

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500

Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship

Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

Download six free fire, smoke and explosion simulations

Get JangaFX's free stock simulation elements created in its EmberGen software. VDB format, CC0 licence.

Saturday, March 7th, 2020

Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25

Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81

The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.

Thursday, November 21st, 2019

Download Aq Mesher Lite and Aq Bullet Lite for free

Get MagicPictures Software's new free editions of its particle meshing and physics plugins for 3ds Max.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

MagicPictures Software ships Aq Mesher and Aq Bullet

VFX house MagicPictures Studio's OpenVDB-based meshing and Bullet physics tools now available as 3ds Max plugins.

Monday, August 5th, 2019

Autodesk unveils Arnold 5.4

Update to the renderer adds initial support for OSL and OpenVDB in Arnold GPU, plus new Clip Geo shader for rendering cutaways.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Autodesk unveils Maya 2019.2 and Bifrost for Maya

Big update introduces new visual programming system for physics simulations, with new fire, smoke and snow solvers.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2019