Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.10 for 3ds Max and Maya
Create new forms of goo thanks to the fluid simulation tool's support for liquids of variable viscosity.
Friday, February 16th, 2018
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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
Download Cinema 4D physics framework Effex 2.8 for free
Pioneering fluid simulation, particle and volumetrics tool, once sold for over €500, is now free on GitHub.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini
Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
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
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Insydium releases X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D
Now shipping: big update to the particle simulation tool adds new liquid and fire solvers, cloth system.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Basefount ships Miarmy 6.0
Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
F12 ships The Grove Release 5
Blender-based tree-creation tool gets support for wind animation. Results can be exported to other apps in FBX or Alembic format.
Thursday, November 30th, 2017
SideFX releases Houdini 16.5
Video: see Houdini's upcoming retopology and facial autorigging tools, and a lot of neat new fluid, crowd and hair simulation features.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2017
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to Houdini 17
Get started with Houdini with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's step-by-step guide to core workflows.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 7
3D clothing design tool gets neat new dynamics options, new modular clothing design mode. Price down $60.
Wednesday, September 27th, 2017
Check out the new features in Blender 2.79
Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017