Tutorial: Introduction to Houdini - Grains
Discover how to simulate sand and other granular materials in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginner tutorial.
Friday, July 4th, 2025
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GeoGen is now in public beta
JangaFX's real-time terrain design tool is out of alpha. Check out the new features in GeoGen 0.3, like spline editing of terrain.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
JangaFX releases GeoGen 0.2
Intriguing 3D terrain and planet generator for real-time applications gets its second public release. Check out the latest features here.
Monday, February 5th, 2024
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Xenon Drop 4.2
Update makes new Omniverse connection plugin available to all users of the lighting design tool.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Check out real-time hair creation tool Fiber Shop 2
Interesting standalone app authors fibre- or card-based hair for use in game engines and real-time apps.
Tuesday, February 8th, 2022
Check out super-cool 3ds Max snow plugin PolySnow Plus
Neat plugin for adding realistic snow to 3D scenes gets brush-based sculpting, new icicle object.
Friday, February 19th, 2021
Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.15
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2020.3
Material authoring app now automatically generates opacity masks for imported texture atlases.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Superluminal ships Stardust 1.6 for After Effects
Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
Check out versatile Cinema 4D plugin NoiseScape v2
Neat add-on creates a beautiful set of procedural displacement effects for motion graphics and CG work.
Monday, February 10th, 2020
Blackmagic Design launches the Blackmagic eGPU
Competitively priced new external GPU accelerates CG apps like DaVinci Resolve on Mac hardware.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2017.2
Material authoring software gets support for the AxF material format, plus seven new filters and noises.
Friday, October 20th, 2017