Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow for 3ds Max in free open beta
Hotly tipped replacement for 3ds Max's Particle Flow toolset provides fast, multithreaded multiphysics.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019
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Autodesk unveils 3ds Max roadmap for future updates
Proposed features include new procedural layout tools, animation retargeting, automated retopology.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2019
Check out Chaos, UE4's new 'Hollywood physics' system
Video: see the new destruction toolset due in Unreal Engine 4.23. Cloth, character physics to follow.
Thursday, March 21st, 2019
SideFX ships Houdini 17.5
Major update to Houdini adds ground-breaking Procedural Dependency Graph, distributed fluid sims, updated Vellum solver.
Wednesday, March 13th, 2019
Sneak peek: real-time ray tracing in Notch Builder
See the real-time motion graphics tool's interesting new path tracing system. Runs on any current GPU.
Thursday, February 21st, 2019
Eye candy: Gnomon's eerily beautiful 2019 student reel
Watch nine minutes of the best new student VFX, animation and CG art from the top international school.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2019
RayFire Studios releases RayFire 1.83 for 3ds Max
3ds Max demolition plugin's neat new interactive workflow removes the need to pre-shatter meshes.
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2019
The 10 best VFX and animation breakdowns of 2018
Watch the best tech breakdown videos of the year, as chosen by CG Channel's Facebook followers.
Saturday, January 12th, 2019
Ephere ships Ornatrix V6 for 3ds Max
Popular hair and fur plugin gets new physics, clumping and braiding toolsets, native support for Arnold.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Realsoft ships Realsoft 3D 8
One of the oldest 3D applications gets updated for current Hi-DPI displays and multicore CPUs, and gains a photon mapping system.
Friday, December 28th, 2018
Eye candy: Insydium's new X-Particles showreel
See beautiful semi-abstract effects created in the Cinema 4D particle tool and rendered in Cycles 4D.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Nvidia open-sources PhysX, unveils PhysX SDK 4.0
Real-time physics system now available under a 3-clause BSD licence on PCs and mobile devices.
Tuesday, December 4th, 2018