Videos: the best of Siggraph 2016’s technical papers
Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from new ways to 3D print Moomins to Schrödinger's Smoke.
Monday, May 30th, 2016
fluid simulation
Basefount ships Miarmy 4.7
Maya crowd-simulation tool now lets crowd agents float in water, or get up after being turned into ragdolls.
Friday, May 27th, 2016
Eye candy: the RealFlow 2015 showreel
See three minutes of gorgeous new work created with the fluid simulator, from ads to the titles for Daredevil.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2016
Insydium releases X-Particles 3.5
Cinema 4D particles tool gets new audio modifier and trail deformer. Price of floating licences reduced.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015.1
Updated: Fluid simulator's GPU-accelerated Dyverso solvers now simulate immiscible fluids, support wet maps.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 4.0 for 3ds Max
First update to top gaseous fluid simulator in three years boosts speed, adds new tools for art directing sims.
Tuesday, October 27th, 2015
Blackcore releases ExplosiaFX for Softimage
New plugin lets users create voxel-based gaseous fluid effects using Softimage's ICE toolset.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015
Next Limit releases RealFlow 2015
Fluid simulator gets new GPU based solvers, better OpenVDB support, new artist and TD tools.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2015's technical papers
Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from recreating fine skin details to simulating mayonnaise.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Chaos Group releases V-Ray for 3ds Max 3.20
New video: Service pack adds new VR cameras, GPU-based texture baking, option to render fluid sims.
Tuesday, June 9th, 2015
Next Limit announces RFCORE for Cinema 4D
New addition to RealFlow product line will let users create and render liquid sims directly inside C4D.
Friday, April 17th, 2015
Next Limit releases RealFlow RenderKit 2014
Free RF tool for meshing particles at render time gets better Arnold support, system for surface spray.
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014
Cool tech demo: the Project Proteus fluid simulator
Check out this physically based, 100% parallelised 'next-gen' fluid simulator, soon available in beta.
Thursday, October 30th, 2014