Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
cloth simulation
Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers
Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.5
Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 7.5
3D clothing design tool gets new UV editor, transform controls for add-ons like props and buttons.
Tuesday, May 29th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 1.15
Promising new crowd-simulation tool for Maya and Houdini gets support for cloth and dynamic fur.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3
New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D
Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Eye candy: the Marvelous Designer 7 showreel
A refreshingly diverse set of work created with the clothing design tool, including some amazing one-person VFX shorts.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4
Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.
Thursday, September 21st, 2017
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2017's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from cutting-edge fluid sims to ways to model tentacles.
Monday, June 19th, 2017
Master clothing modelling with Marvelous Designer
Create production-ready assets with Gnomon video Cloth Modeling Pipeline with Marvelous Designer.
Saturday, May 27th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.16
Big update to game engine adds volumetric fog; plus new physics, animation and VR editing features.
Friday, May 26th, 2017