Buy the Sandy granular fluids solver for RealFlow
Simulate sand, sugar and snow with developer Yannik F's cult RealFlow add-on, now available commercially.
Wednesday, December 24th, 2014
simulation
cebas updates thinkingParticles 6
Updated: First 'Subscription Drop' extends volumeBreak node and new procedural spline modelling toolset.
Sunday, December 21st, 2014
Gnomon ships Introduction to Maya Fluid Effects 2 and 3
FX TD Wayne Hollingsworth's videos provide a complete guide to creating production-ready simulations.
Thursday, December 18th, 2014
Marius Silaghi releases Deformation Cleaner
Neat 3ds Max modifier cleans up bad deformations on animated models without losing mesh detail.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Atomic Fiction to launch cloud rendering service
VFX firm's Conductor platform will support users' own custom scripts, plugins and software.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Navié releases Effex 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Big update to multiphysics system adds surface tension, Bullet dynamics, lots of other cool tools.
Tuesday, October 21st, 2014
Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
Eye candy: Side Effects' Houdini 2014 demo reel
Watch things fall down, blow up and wash away in the latest showcase of the cutting edge of simulation.
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
Cebas announces release date for thinkingParticles 6
3ds Max multiphysics plugin due to ship in September. Update adds soft-body dynamics and fluids.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Video: FX Links - real-time water and cloth on Android
Watch FXGear's new tech power some pretty neat gyroscope-aware sims. It does hair and particles too.
Wednesday, August 6th, 2014
See sand, sugar and snow simulated stylishly in Sandy
Check out these cool videos of granular materials, created in a new work-in-progress simulation system.
Monday, July 28th, 2014
Clean up point cloud data from 3D scans with Sparta
Updated: back the new Indiegogo campaign to get the pro versions of the particle sculpting app for less.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Thinkinetic releases Pulldownit 3
3ds Max and Maya shattering and destruction tool gets new preview mode, extra controls, speed boost.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2014