Sitni Sati releases FumeFX 6.0 for 3ds Max
Major update turns the gaseous fluid simulator into a multiphysics toolkit. Now subscription-only.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023
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Nvidia unveils RTX 4000 SFF and 5 new RTX laptop GPUs
Latest pro GPUs to use Nvidia's Ada Lovelace architecture include $1250 small form factor 20GB card.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
Godot 4.0 ships
Discover five key features for CG artists in this major update to the open-source game engine, from Vulkan rendering to real-time GI.
Thursday, March 2nd, 2023
SideFX releases Houdini for Apple Silicon
New build of the procedural 3D software with native support for Apple's M1 and M2 chips is now production-ready.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Substance 3D Designer's creators win Sci-Tech Awards
Other tech 'Oscars' go to Pixar's Fizt2 simulation system and Wētā FX's in-house render manager.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max
GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Try Blender's new node-based simulation framework
Long-awaited expansion of the Geometry Nodes system now available as an experimental branch of Blender.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
QuadSpinner ships Gaea 1.3.2
Next-gen terrain-generation software for games and VFX gets the option to turn any imported OBJ file into a ground surface.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5.1
New features in the game engine range from updates to Nanite and Lumen to AI-based animation tools.
Tuesday, November 15th, 2022