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Houdini

Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.

Friday, July 26th, 2024

Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.

Thursday, July 25th, 2024

3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D and Maya renderer gets motion-graphics-friendly new Distance shader, plus updates to Redshift RT.

Thursday, July 18th, 2024

Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2024

Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.

Thursday, July 11th, 2024

Promising tool creates KineFX-compatible muscle and skin simulation rigs for use in visual effects, animation and games.

Thursday, July 4th, 2024

Real-time ray tracing renderer for large V-Ray scenes gets support for VR headsets, rounded edges and ACEScg color space.

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time terrain generator, including a 3D stamping system and MatCap material support.

Monday, June 24th, 2024

See all the key features in the next major update to Houdini, from modeling, animation and simulation to the COPERNICUS framework.

Friday, June 14th, 2024

Discover how the VFX studio created over 560 miraculous effects shots for the Netflix chart-topping religous minseries.

Friday, June 7th, 2024

Check out the latest features in the renderer, including this cross-hatching effect in the new Non-Photorealistic Rendering system.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Major update to the Maya crowds tool adds new workflows for creating shots without simulation, and a new UE5-style ML Deformer.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

New open shading model intended to supersede both Adobe and Autodesk's standard materials reaches its milestone 1.0 release.

Wednesday, June 5th, 2024