Autodesk releases Bifrost for Maya 2.11
Maya's multiphysics plugin gets experimental new modular rigging toolset, plus the option to generate variant simulations in the cloud.
Saturday, October 12th, 2024
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Blender 4.3 lets you use Geometry Nodes with Grease Pencil
Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.
Monday, October 7th, 2024
Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 6.5 for 3ds Max
Major update to the gaseous fluid simulator and multiphysics plugin adds new GPU-accelerated liquid simulation toolset.
Thursday, September 12th, 2024
Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 3.3 for Houdini
Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
Group test: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series and Super Series GPUs
Discover which NVIDIA GPU is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests, including Blender, Maya and UE5.
Friday, August 30th, 2024
Autodesk acquires Golaem
Maya crowd simulation software is no longer on sale, but its core IP will be integrated into 'Autodesk's current product offerings'.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2024
Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima
Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.
Friday, August 2nd, 2024
Zibra AI unveils ZibraVDB
Now officially released: new AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 100x" for rendering in real time in Unreal Engine 5.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
NVIDIA unveils fVDB
New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
The making of the VFX for Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Discover how Ingenuity Studios created a six-mile CG river and complex smoke and fire simulations for Kevin Costner's epic Western.
Friday, July 26th, 2024
Group test: AMD Radeon Pro W7000 Series workstation GPUs
Discover which of AMD's professional GPUs is best for CG work in real-world content creation and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, July 25th, 2024
GeoGen is now in public beta
JangaFX's real-time terrain design tool is out of alpha. Check out the new features in GeoGen 0.3, like spline editing of terrain.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024
LiquiGen is now available to buy
JangaFX's real-time liquid simulator is now in public alpha. Check out the new features in LiquiGen 0.3, like whitewater and surface tension.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024