Boris FX announces Boris FX Suite 2018
New suite to make FX and tracking tools Continuum, Sapphire, Mocha Pro available via a single licence.
Thursday, March 8th, 2018
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SiNi Software releases Scatter for 3ds Max as free beta
Promising new scattering plugin aims to provide an artist-friendly way to create very large scenes.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Autodesk posts Softimage to Arnold source code on GitHub
Code for the SitoA plugin available via an Apache 2.0 licence. Latest update supports Arnold 5.0.2.4.
Wednesday, February 21st, 2018
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 4 for Maya
Destruction plugin gets neat new options to control Voronoi shatter patterns. Dynamics sims now up to 30% faster.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
YcdiVFX releases Physics Tools for Maya
Neat new Maya plugin adds instant believable secondary motion to keyframed character animations.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
Try this impressive new FLIP fluid simulator for Blender
Sign up to beta test Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender's production-ready fluid solver for Blender 2.79.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.6
3ds Max particle tool gets neat new 'All Purpose Fields' to help art direct simulations, OpenVDB support.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Boris FX ships Mocha VR 5.6
Free update to the planar tracking tool for 360-degree footage adds support for stereoscopic workflows, improved horizon stabilisation.
Tuesday, February 6th, 2018
J Cube releases Multiverse Studio V5
Heavyweight VFX scene assembly tool gets support for Alembic and USD sequences, AR content in USDZ format.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
Richard Rosenman releases Ultraflares 1.2 for Photoshop
Powerful tool for designing lens flares and light leaks gets first big update since its release in 2015.
Tuesday, January 16th, 2018
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.1 in beta
New C#-scriptable render pipeline and node-based shader editor, but no more native Substance support.
Thursday, January 11th, 2018
Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads
Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
WTools3D releases LWCAD 5.5
LightWave modelling plugin gets neat new procedural tools for roofs and stairs. C4D and Max versions officially no longer 'Lite' editions.
Monday, December 11th, 2017