SideFX ships Houdini 18
Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2019
cloth simulation
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 9
3D clothing design tool gets support for GPU simulation, new brush-based subdivision system.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Crytek releases CryEngine 5.6
Game engine gets support for area lights and multilayer microfacet materials, new ragdoll IK system and updates to cloth simulation.
Friday, August 30th, 2019
Do these videos show new simulation features in Maya?
Watch an enigmatic set of teasers of smoke, fire, cloth and granular fluids, posted to Autodesk's Twitter.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
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
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