Deep FX ships Deep Rising FX 1.2 for LightWave
Affordable new particle-based fluid simulation plugin adds support for Bullet dynamics, OBJ mesh export.
Thursday, June 1st, 2017
liquid simulation
Next Limit ships RealFlow 10.1
Videos: sizeable free update to fluid simulator adds new viscous and viscoelastic Dyverso materials; neat new fluid masking system.
Friday, May 19th, 2017
Eye candy: Next Limit's 2017 RealFlow showreel
See beautiful new work created using the fluid simulator, from CG Coca-Cola to Game of Thrones.
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
Next Limit ships RealFlow 10
Now shipping: big update to the fluid simulator adds multiphysics solver, new Particle Skinner daemon. New pricing confirmed.
Thursday, December 1st, 2016
Navié unveils Effex 2.8
Updated: Cinema 4D fluid simulator to get new sound node; new APIC solver generates smoother liquid flow than standard FLIP solvers.
Friday, October 7th, 2016
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
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
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
Eye candy: Next Limit's RealFlow 2014 showreel
Watch drips, drizzles and splashes created with the fluid simulator, plus a couple of larger VFX shots.
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2014
Fluid simulator adds viscosity, new Ocean Force daemon, support for the Arnold renderer. Price down too.
Tuesday, June 17th, 2014
Chaos Group releases Phoenix FD 2.2 for 3ds Max
Fluid simulation system gets internal self-illumination, simulation morphing controls, PRT and OpenVDB support.
Thursday, May 8th, 2014
Marcus Nordenstam discusses Bifrost
Naiad's co-author turned Autodesk product manager tells us how Maya 2015's new fluid simulator will stir up FX artists' workflows
Monday, March 31st, 2014
Watch cool new videos of the FluX fluid simulator
FXGear posts new shots - and shot breakdowns - of liquid sims created in its promising-looking new tool.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013