Sitni Sati ships FumeFX for Maya
Leading gaseous fluid simulator now available for Maya as well as Max. Runs on Windows and Linux.
Monday, May 27th, 2013
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Videos: the best of Siggraph 2013's technical papers
Our pick of the best CG research covers hair capture, smoke sims - and even fixes for bad handwriting.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
Video: how to build a digital chimpanzee in Softimage
See The Mill's painstaking muscle and skin simulation work on its new ad for animal rights charity PETA.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Cool tech videos: X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D
Update to the particle plugin to add fluids, XPresso integration, full multi-threading. Check 'em all out here.
Friday, May 10th, 2013
Molecular add-on brings multiphysics to Blender
Jean-Francois Gallant's new script unifies particle, cloth and fluid sims - and even pasta simulation.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships Stoke MX for 3ds Max
Interesting new 'particle reflow' tool helps users layer small sims from many sources to create bigger ones.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Video: Position Based Fluids in PhysX
See impressive real-time liquids simulated using tech from future releases of Nvidia's physics engine.
Monday, April 22nd, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Autodesk announces new features of Softimage 2014
Watch demos of the new camera sequencer, ICE and Syflex options - and lots of videos about CrowdFX.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Autodesk announces new features of 3ds Max 2014
Watch videos of the new crowd system, mParticles, Perspective Match and pan and zoom tools.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Luxology ships Modo 701
New particles and dynamics tools, better sculpting workflows: read our full guide to the highlights here.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2013
Motion Boutique releases Newton 2.0 for After Effects
Now shipping: After Effects physics engine gets cool new simulation tools, including basic soft bodies.
Thursday, February 21st, 2013
Eye candy: Nvidia's Hawken PhysX trailer
See the new APEX Turbulence system in use to create swirly effects for the free-to-play mech shooter.
Thursday, January 31st, 2013