Thinkinetic ships Pulldownit 5.7 for Maya and 5.8 for 3ds Max
Sizeable updates to the shattering and dynamics plugin add new Fast Stacking & Deactivation solver, new fracturing and simulation controls.
Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
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cebas releases finalFluid 1.0 for 3ds Max
GPU-accelerated simulation tool uses a sparse grid solver to create smoke, fire and dust in real time.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Matt Puchala releases Axiom 2.2 for Houdini
GPU-accelerated sparse gaseous fluid solver gets new profiling tools. Native Metal support now in beta.
Tuesday, April 12th, 2022
Cebas launches finalFluid for 3ds Max
Check out the new GPU-based real-time fire and smoke simulator, now available in free public beta.
Tuesday, March 15th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Check out neat free Houdini sparse GPU fluid solver Axiom
Updated: See what's new in Build 6 of the GPU-based alternative to Houdini's own Sparse Pyro solver.
Tuesday, May 18th, 2021
Check out fast 3ds Max cloth simulation plugin Dynamo
Deform Dynamics' real-time cloth simulation tool performs '10-100x faster' than Max's Cloth modifier.
Friday, October 9th, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.23
Free game engine gets new cloth simulation system for clothing and environment assets, plus better character animation performance.
Monday, February 24th, 2020
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.4 for Maya
Powerful tissue simulation plugin gets support for Maya Fields, new tools to grow or shrink muscles.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2018
Autodesk releases Sketchbook Motion
Neat iPad app turns sketches into simple 2D animations using an intuitive sketch-based workflow.
Monday, September 26th, 2016
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 6
Now shipping: Clothing design tool adds new options to edit 3D models directly and to retime animations.
Monday, September 12th, 2016
IDV launches SpeedTree Modeler for Unity 5
Create unique trees complete with LoDs, collision primitives and wind forces for use with the Unity 5 beta.
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014
IDV releases SpeedTree Cinema and Studio 6.2
Vegetation-generation software gets new 'Wind Wizard' and extended import/export options.
Monday, August 6th, 2012