Academy Software Foundation adopts MaterialX
Movie industry standards body to oversee future development of the open format for rich material data.
Friday, July 16th, 2021
OpenVDB
Check out neat free Houdini sparse GPU fluid solver Axiom
Updated: See what's new in Build 6 of the GPU-based alternative to Houdini's own Sparse Pyro solver.
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1
GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Deep FX Studio 1.3 ships
Check out the new features in Deep FX World's standalone multiphysics simulation and procedural animation software.
Tuesday, May 4th, 2021
Chaos Czech previews Corona Renderer 7
Check out the new features due in the next major update to the 3ds Max and Cinema 4D renderer.
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
Download five free loopable OpenVDB smoke animations
Get Between Two Pines' simulated jets of smoke or steam for use in your 3D scenes. Commercial use.
Sunday, January 31st, 2021
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Cinema 4D
Long-awaited rewrite of the C4D renderer adds built-in compositing and new GPU rendering features.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.91
Open-source 3D app gets another major update. Read our five-minute run-down of all the key changes.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Sneak peek: the Deform Stack in Otoy's Sculptron
Free GPU-based sculpting tool's new modifier stack will deform high-res meshes in near-real time.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Effective TDs ships Storm 0.5
Big update to the standalone fluid simulation tool adds new smoke solver, option to upres sims, and 'complete procedural VDB toolkit'.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development
Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.
Sunday, August 23rd, 2020
Otoy ships Sculptron Alpha 2
Latest free build of Otoy's new tool for sculpting animation caches speeds up playback 'about 10x' and adds a readymade toon material.
Friday, July 17th, 2020