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3D clothing design software creator Jaden Oh wins tech 'Oscar', along with the creators of open standards USD, OpenVDB and Alembic.

Monday, January 15th, 2024

Veteran 3D animation software gets its first update in over three years, following a change of owner in April. Check out its new features here.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Get a free explosion, smoke plume and meteor trail from ActionVFX's new library of stock .vdb files, with a Blender fire and smoke shader.

Sunday, November 26th, 2023

Heavyweight lighting and look dev software gets new Native USD framework to power up USD workflows. Live Rendering now 'up to twice as fast'.

Wednesday, November 1st, 2023

Popular real-time smoke and fire simulator gets support for ground plane shadows, and initial support for importing skinned meshes.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Now out of preview: read our pick of the new features in UE5, from rendering OpenVDB files to the new Skeletal and Panel Cloth Editors.

Wednesday, September 6th, 2023

Ubiquitous tech for reading and writing images becomes the latest open-source project to be hosted by the visual effects industry body.

Tuesday, August 1st, 2023

3D modelling and rendering app gets new Boolean modifier, new material nodes, enhanced animation tools, and OCIO support.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2023

Now available: ray tracing renderer used on Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has been released under an Apache 2.0 licence.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.

Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Landscape generation software can now export clouds to other DCC apps in OpenVDB format.

Friday, November 4th, 2022

GPU-accelerated spectral renderer gets new dedicated smoke and fire material, plus temporal denoising.

Monday, September 19th, 2022