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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
Insydium ships X-Particles 2019 public release
Now shipping: Cinema 4D physics plugin gets new shattering and particle-based dynamics systems.
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Eye candy: Insydium's new X-Particles showreel
See beautiful semi-abstract effects created in the Cinema 4D particle tool and rendered in Cycles 4D.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Insydium's Bridge tool loads old Cinema 4D plugins in R20
Free tool already loads old versions of X-Particles and Cycles 4D; may work with other third-party plugins.
Wednesday, September 26th, 2018
Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D
Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists
Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017
Best Black Friday and Cyber Monday offers for CG artists
See over 50 money-saving offers, including Adobe, Autodesk, Allegorithmic, Marvelous Designer and Next Limit.
Thursday, November 24th, 2016
Insydium ships Cycles 4D
Promising new plugin implements Blender's powerful GPU-based renderer and node-based materials inside Cinema 4D.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016
Maxon picks AMD's Radeon ProRender for Cinema 4D
OpenCL-based GPU render engine will be integrated into Cinema 4D over the next few release cycles.
Monday, October 31st, 2016
Blender's Cycles renderer is coming to Cinema 4D
Updated: X-Particles dev Insydium posts price info and full demo video for its upcoming Cycles 4D plugin.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016