Eye candy: Next Limit's Realflow 2015 showreel
See the best new work created in RealFlow: from water to huge sand sims - and even a zero-gravity egg.
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
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Watch the Siggraph 2015 animation festival winners
See the best CG work produced throughout the world this year: from indie shorts to medical animations.
Tuesday, July 28th, 2015
Maxon unveils Cinema 4D plugin for Houdini Engine
Updated: Free plugin to make Houdini's VFX tools accessible inside C4D now out in public beta.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Blender 2.74 ships
Check out the Viewport 2.0-style viewport AO and depth of field; better hair dynamics and planar tracking.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Thunder Cloud Studio releases GMH2 for Maya
Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Download Nvidia's bizarre new PhysX FleX demo
Fire bananas at flags, pour goop on armadillos and melt bunnies in this real-time multiphysics test scene.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 4.0
Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
Insydium releases X-Particles 3
Updated, now shipping: Cinema 4D particle tool gets new FLIP fluid solver, particle-based dynamics.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015
BUF to release complete in-house set of VFX tools
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4.5
3D clothing design tool adds support for multiple avatars, plus FBX and OBJ export for animations.
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
Think Particle ships Cloud Field Simulator for C4D
New add-on creates fast-simulating organic-looking cloud fields using either PyroCluster or TurbulenceFD.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Mesh multiphysics systems in Blender with CubeSurfer
New work-in-progress add-on surfaces particle simulations ranging from water to wet snow.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015