Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D
Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
simulation
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
AXYZ design ships anima 3.5
3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation plugin's new 'alive' technology synchronises cameras and geometry with the host app.
Tuesday, September 25th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.5
Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.
Friday, August 24th, 2018
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 2.0
Maya and Houdini crowd simulation tool gets big render speed boost, new behaviour modules, Python plugins system.
Wednesday, August 8th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya
Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers
See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya v2
Big update to hair plugin adds new physics system, clumping controls, option to generate woven fabrics.
Monday, June 11th, 2018
TP Debugger helps you debug 3ds Max/thinkingParticles sims
Neat scripted operator displays key particle properties on screen to troubleshoot simulations visually.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.3
Check out the newly updated Maya soft tissue plugin, then download this free 'jellyphant' test character.
Saturday, May 12th, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.2
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.
Thursday, April 5th, 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