JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Alembic
Autodesk ships Bifrost for Maya 2.1
Sizeable update to the multiphysics plugin adds new scene geometry queries, better Alembic support.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2020
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 5
The next generation of V-Ray is now out of beta, and available to buy. Check out the new features in Chaos Group's powerful renderer.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2020
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 4.8 for 3ds Max
Check out the new features in the 3ds Max edition of the shattering and rigid body dynamics plugin.
Friday, May 15th, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
e-on software launches PlantCatalog
PlantFactory creator launches new set of procedural 3D plants for use in DCC apps and game engines.
Thursday, February 13th, 2020
Check out Muhammad Etman's Maya/Clarisse Bridge Tool 2.0
FX TD's handy app exports Maya models, shaders, lights, cameras - and now animation - to Clarisse.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2019
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.
Sunday, December 15th, 2019
Otoy unveils Sculptron
Check out this new GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches or converting them to volumes, available as a free public alpha.
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019
F12 ships The Grove Release 8
Major update to the biologically plausible tree-generation tool adds the option to record timelapse animations of your trees growing.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.7 for Maya
Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat Art Directable Rest Shapes system lets you sculpt corrective shapes for existing sims.
Thursday, September 26th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Indie
New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.
Friday, September 6th, 2019