Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.2
3D animation and motion graphics app gets new Thicken generator, updates to Pyro simulations and the Commander.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
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ZibraAI unveils Zibra VDB Compression
Upcoming AI tech compresses offline smoke and fire sims "up to 20 times" for use in Unity and UE5.
Thursday, December 15th, 2022
Otoy launches OctaneRender Studio+ subscriptions
Firm ditches perpetual licences of the GPU renderer, but adds MoI 3D and Cascadeur to its subs package.
Tuesday, November 29th, 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
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2023.1
3D design and animation software gets new smoke and fire simulation system and native Redshift camera.
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5
Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
Insydium releases NeXus
New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Create art-directable building demolition FX in Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Download five free loopable OpenVDB smoke animations
Get Between Two Pines' simulated jets of smoke or steam for use in your 3D scenes. Commercial use.
Sunday, January 31st, 2021
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 4.30 for 3ds Max and Maya
New force tuning option in the fluid simulation app lets users 'mask' forces to control sims precisely.
Thursday, September 24th, 2020
LuxCoreRender 2.4 and BlendLuxCore 2.4 ship
Open-source renderer gets faster GPU rendering, plus support for Blender's mantaflow smoke sims.
Thursday, July 30th, 2020