Get Allan McKay's free eight-hour plasma VFX tutorial
VFX supervisor's new free training course comes with full project files in MAX, FBX and Alembic formats.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
fluid simulation
Online documentation for V-Ray Next for Max goes live
Check out all the new features of the upcoming release, plus a demo of volume rendering on the GPU.
Friday, May 4th, 2018
Escape Motions releases Rebelle 3
Now shipping. Check out all the new features in this varied update to the fluid flow-based paint tool.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2018
Sneak peek: see Arnold's new toon shader in action
New video also shows other features due in the renderer, like support for USD and MaterialX.
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 2.0
LightWave fluid simulatior gets new granular and viscous jet solvers, plus support for GPU acceleration.
Monday, March 5th, 2018
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya
Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Escape Motions releases Rebelle 2.1
Fluid-based digital painting tool gets better watercolour blending, automatic brushstroke smoothing.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.6
3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Download Cinema 4D physics framework Effex 2.8 for free
Pioneering fluid simulation, particle and volumetrics tool, once sold for over €500, is now free on GitHub.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.2
It's a smallish update, but it adds new render options for Bifröst fluid simulations and extends the FBX export process for animations.
Thursday, December 28th, 2017
Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads
Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0
Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.
Friday, December 8th, 2017
SideFX releases Houdini 16.5
Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017