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Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, from new character rigging features to destruction simulation in Bifrost.

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025

Smoke, fire and effects plugin gets GPU-accelerated ocean simulation system, with support for foam, spray and floating objects.

Tuesday, August 19th, 2025

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Physical Addons' promising plugin generates photorealistic animated ocean surfaces, and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2023

See the new features due in the next major version of Houdini, including updates to animation and simulation and the Karma renderer.

Thursday, October 19th, 2023

Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.

Saturday, July 8th, 2023

See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.

Friday, December 9th, 2022

New update to the fluid simulator once known as Phoenix FD adds collision between floating objects.

Friday, April 16th, 2021

Discover how to simulate realistic ocean surfaces, complete with foam and spray, in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

Thursday, December 31st, 2020

Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.

Saturday, July 4th, 2020

Check out the new ocean surface and flocking systems in the Cinema 4D particle and physics add-on.

Thursday, April 30th, 2020

Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.

Tuesday, November 6th, 2018

Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.

Friday, February 16th, 2018