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particle effects

Suite of effects plugins gets new tool for importing, texturing and rendering 3D objects in After Effects, for motion graphics or VFX work.

Thursday, April 11th, 2024

Paid standalone edition of the 3D particle generator supersedes the old free edition, but can be run indefinitely in trial mode.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

Major update to the next-gen motion design software adds support for 2.5D animation and an experimental new particle system.

Tuesday, February 6th, 2024

See the new features in the suite of effects plugins, including Magic Bullet 2024.1, Trapcode 2024.1, Universe 2024.1 and VFX 2024.1.

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Check out the new AI features in the GPU-based ray tracing renderer, including automatic atmosphere and texture generation.

Friday, December 15th, 2023

See what's new in individual FX and color correction plugin suites Magic Bullet 2024, Trapcode 2024, Universe 2024 and VFX 2024.

Saturday, September 16th, 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

Read our run-down of the latest features in UE5, from procedural content and Substrate materials to Chaos Flesh.

Friday, May 12th, 2023

Free standalone edition of the GPU accelerated particle generator gets new 3D and fluid dynamics options.

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023

Now shipping: neat plugin provides 'painless, almost real-time 3D object tracking' inside After Effects.

Monday, December 26th, 2022

Free PDF guides provide overviews of the game engine's key toolsets, with downloadable examples.

Wednesday, December 7th, 2022

Cinematic effects plugin for Photoshop can now render particle animations over still images to create looping cinemagraphs.

Monday, October 10th, 2022

3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets new ME-L scripting language for manipulating OpenVDB data.

Monday, September 19th, 2022