LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020
fluid simulation
JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2020 update
Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.
Saturday, July 4th, 2020
Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Collection
$699/year subscription includes 11 editions of V-Ray, plus Phoenix FD, Project Lavina and VRScans assets.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS
The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.
Thursday, June 4th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021.1
Check out the new features in the 3D modelling and animation tool, including new interactive extrusion and texture baking workflows.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Insydium releases X-Particles 2020 features in beta
Check out the new ocean surface and flocking systems in the Cinema 4D particle and physics add-on.
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Education Collection
New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
10 expert tips for better Houdini FLIP fluid simulations
Follow FuseFX artist Kevin Pinga's production hacks to create faster, more flexible Houdini fluid sims.
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Get Allan McKay's free 15-hour The Shores VFX course
Create a building destruction shot in 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD with this new video training course.
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
The best Black Friday and winter 2019 deals for CG artists
Save money this month with these great seasonal deals on CG software, hardware and assets.
Friday, November 29th, 2019