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Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

Monday, January 27th, 2025

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

3D modeling and animation software gets new tools for copying and pasting animations, and for controlling depth of field in renders.

Thursday, September 19th, 2024

Check out the new features in the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver, including support for height fields as collision sources.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024

New deep learning framework built on OpenVDB is intended to enable developers and researchers to build city-scale generative AI models.

Tuesday, July 30th, 2024

Latest updates to the VR sculpting app add support for VDB files, an Outliner and a new workflow for creating hard-surface models.

Wednesday, May 15th, 2024

Veteran 3D animation software gets its first update in over three years, following a change of owner in April. Check out its new features here.

Thursday, November 30th, 2023

Update makes the full Professional edition of the landscape generator available to indie artists for just $199. Check out the new features here.

Tuesday, November 21st, 2023

Check out the new features in the first production release of the hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulator for games and VFX work.

Wednesday, March 15th, 2023

Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.

Wednesday, August 31st, 2022

Eidos-Montréal's UnrealVDB lets users view VDB files inside Unreal Engine and render them with its path tracer.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2022

Check out the new features coming to the real-time fluid simulator's GPU particle system, including motion trails and 'force masking'.

Tuesday, July 12th, 2022