Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out
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
ocean surface
Physical Open Waters generates oceans in Blender in real time
Physical Addons' promising plugin generates photorealistic animated ocean surfaces, and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2023
Sneak peek: Houdini 20
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
Tutorial: Large-Scale Water FX in Houdini
Master production-scale fluid simulation with ILM artist Miguel Perez Senent's detailed tutorial.
Saturday, July 8th, 2023
Discover 5 key features for CG artists in Unity 2022.2
See the key changes to the game engine, like the new water system and dynamic volumetric clouds.
Friday, December 9th, 2022
Chaos releases Phoenix 4.40 for 3ds Max and Maya
New update to the fluid simulator once known as Phoenix FD adds collision between floating objects.
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Master Houdini's Ocean toolset
Discover how to simulate realistic ocean surfaces, complete with foam and spray, in The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Thursday, December 31st, 2020
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2020 update
Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.
Saturday, July 4th, 2020
Insydium releases X-Particles 2020 features in beta
Check out the new ocean surface and flocking systems in the Cinema 4D particle and physics add-on.
Thursday, April 30th, 2020
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.12 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulator gets support for instancing sims, plus volumetric rendering on the GPU via V-Ray Next for Maya.
Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya
Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Autodesk ships Maya 2018.2
It's a smallish update, but it adds new render options for Bifröst fluid simulations and extends the FBX export process for animations.
Thursday, December 28th, 2017
Autodesk ships Maya 2018
Viewport 2.0 becomes the primary viewport; new features added to the MASH motion graphics and Bifröst fluid simulation toolsets.
Tuesday, July 25th, 2017