Navié releases Effex 2.5 for Cinema 4D

Big update to multiphysics system adds surface tension, Bullet dynamics, lots of other cool tools.

Tuesday, October 21st, 2014

Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.0

Much-anticipated next-gen games texture-painting tool finally ships. Check out the key features here.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

Shade3D Co buys rights to Shade 3D from e frontier

Key product staff spin out new firm to develop veteran Japanese 3D app. New English release planned.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2014

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2014's technical papers

Watch our pick of the show's hottest research, from physics sims and motion synthesis to... um, pixie dust.

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

The Foundry ships Modo 801

'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.

Friday, April 25th, 2014

FXhome announces HitFilm Plugins collection

New plugin pack provides over 130 grading, keying and effects tools for After Effects, Premiere Pro et al.

Tuesday, April 8th, 2014

Marcus Nordenstam discusses Bifrost

Naiad's co-author turned Autodesk product manager tells us how Maya 2015's new fluid simulator will stir up FX artists' workflows

Monday, March 31st, 2014

Videos: see the new features in Maya 2015

Major update adds new FX tools, new skinning system, lots of smaller features. See them all in action here.

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014

Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6

Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.

Monday, November 11th, 2013

The best new software from Siggraph 2013

Updated: We round up the main new products from the show - including five more we missed first time round.

Tuesday, August 6th, 2013

Thinkbox Software expands Maya product line-up

Maya versions of the Frost point cloud meshing and XMesh geometry caching systems are on the way.

Monday, July 22nd, 2013

Thinkbox Software ships Stoke MX for 3ds Max

Interesting new 'particle reflow' tool helps users layer small sims from many sources to create bigger ones.

Wednesday, May 1st, 2013

Luxology unveils Modo 701

Upcoming release to feature new particle engine, audio tools, "up to 175x" speed boost - and new price.

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013