New tutorial - Introduction to Houdini: Fluids
Master Houdini's powerful fluid simulation toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide for VFX and games artists.
Sunday, February 8th, 2026
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Try new Houdini GPU liquid solver Paradigm free in open beta
Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.
Wednesday, January 21st, 2026
Check out real-time Blender water simulation add-on Dynamic Flow
Lightweight 'terrain-aware' tool generates realistic water flow around coastlines and river banks. Works with Eevee and Cycles.
Friday, January 16th, 2026
Review: are the GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 worth the money for CG?
See how NVIDIA's top-of-the-range Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs performed in real-world tests in popular DCC applications.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2025
Chaos releases Vantage 3.1
Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.
Thursday, December 11th, 2025
Insydium releases Fused 2025.4 with new animation toolset Jidou
Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Black Friday, Cyber Week and New Year deals for CG artists
Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in January include 3DCoat, 3D Scan Store, CGTrader.
Friday, November 28th, 2025
Sneak peek: the new FLIP fluid solver in Insydium's NeXus
See the neat new liquid simulation tools in the GPU-based Cinema 4D particle effects add-on, ahead of their release next month.
Thursday, November 27th, 2025
Blender 5.0 is finally here: check out its 5 key features
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from Geometry Nodes and Cycles to changes to color management.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2025
Fluid Flow lets you paint lava and sand into Blender Scenes
Check out Blender Procedurals' interesting new lightweight real-time multiphysics add-on for motion graphics and animation work.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2025
Sneak peek: GPU-accelerated smoke and fire in NeXus
Check out nxExplosiaFX, the new smoke and fire simulation tool in Insydium's GPU-based particle effects add-on for Cinema 4D.
Friday, October 17th, 2025
Download the free CryEngine Community Edition
Community-created patch for CryEngine 5.7 adds the first publicly available new features to Crytek's AAA game engine for three years.
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 4 for Houdini
Latest update to the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver improves collisions between smoke and surrounding objects.
Thursday, September 25th, 2025