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9 June 2009

New RealFlow Case Study: Branit|VFX grows a jungle for "Lost”. Click here for more.

25 May 2009

Wow creates striking new commercial for Aquarius Zero with RealFlow. Click here for more.

12 May 2009

New RealFlow case study for Wolverine video game. Click here to read the full interview with Brandon Young of BYVFX and to check out the stunning RealFlow effects.

8 April 2009

Interview with Mark Stasiuk of Fusion CIS: Find out exactly how Fusion created the stunning fluid effects in National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

30 March 2009

New Case Study: Fusion CIS and DMG create stunning "intelligent" water effects for Fonterra "Whole" commercial. Click here to read more.

17 March 2009

New case study: Picture Mill splash out for Nickelodeon movies!

12 March 2009

New Dodot "Activity" case study from Serena Digital. Take a look...

17 February 2009

In February 2009 Next Limit Technologies received the “Segundo de Chomón 2008” award from the Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences for its significant technical contribution to the development of the film industry with its RealFlow software.

This “Spanish Oscar”, which follows the Technical Achievement Award granted last year by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the USA, was handed to Victor Gonzalez (CEO) and Ignacio Vargas (CTO) of Next Limit by Enrique Urbizu, Vice President of the Spanish Academy of Arts, during an official ceremony in Madrid, Spain, on February 17, 2009.

04 February 2009

New case study! RealFlow used to create award-winning Rosemount Wine commercial.

03 February 2009

RealFlow used in Benjamin Button. Read more here.

23 June 2008

TechRevu reviews RealFlow4: "RealFlow’s more fun than a barrel of monkeys".

30 May 2008

With a Twist Studio rides with RealFlow for the new Nissan GT-R spot. Check it out!.

28 May 2008

Next Limit Anniversary newsletter out now! Take a look...

20 May 2008

Check out our latest case study: Doctor Who: The Fires of Pompeii

25 April 2008

Serious fighting action! Check out our latest case study for KungFu HD.

22 April 2008

Egg Explosion!!!! Check out our latest case study.

22 April 2008

Learn how to simulate the “Terminator” mercury effect with this new tutorial! Find out more about how to control particles and meshes.

11 April 2008

Discover RealFlow! Alpha Channel CG School in Sao Paulo, Brasil now offers a new RealFlow course: Efeitos Especiales com RealFlow.

04 April 2008

RealFlow used in Sweeney Todd! Check out the case study.

04 April 2008

Goplana case study online now!.

28 February 2008

Issue 3 of RF_magazine, "Rigid Body Dynamics" out now!. For more information click here.

25 February 2008

Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences congratulates Next Limit.

07 February 2008

Check out the latest examples of R&D work on the RF_magazine website: underwater explosion, choppy waves and more. Click here to read more...

05 February 2008

Next Limit travel blog, online.

31 January 2008

RFLabs new challenge: Water Wheel.

08 January 2008

Press section available now.

Área de prensa actualmente disponible.

05 January 2008

RealFlow developers win a Technical Achievement Award 2007 from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. More information and details to follow in the next days. Please click here to view the official press release.

Los desarrolladores de RealFlow ganan el Technical Achievement Award 2007 de la Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematograficas de Hollywood. Más información en próximos días. Para más información, solicitar entrevistas o material gráfico, haga clic aquí.

28 December 2007

Wet and Wild spot from Fusion CIS and Radium available here now!

27 December 2007

Kraft Macaroni & Cheese case study online now! Check it out..

26 December 2007

Strathmore Water case study available now! Take a peek here.

14 December 2007

We have uploaded our solution for the RFLabs Volcanoes challenge. Upload your solution now!.

12 December 2007

RFLabs now available! Experiment with RealFlow and push the limits of your skills!. Go to RFLabs now.

11 December 2007

Character-environment interaction scripts pack is now available here!.

04 December 2007

New technology at beta stage: FlowParticler™ and FlowMesher™ for Renderman. Know more!.

13 November 2007

Issue 2 of RF_magazine, "Scripting with RealFlow" out now!. For more information click here.

25 October 2007

New! RF4 benchmarking performance chart is now available online. You can even participate.

01 October 2007

New! Case study for WOWOW.

21 September 2007

More RF4 resources! New tutorial now available.

20 September 2007

Online purchasing available again! Our new shopping cart is clearer and more user- friendly than ever.

12 September 2007

RealFlow4 selected for Academy Awards consideration. The Scientific and Technical Awards Committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the final 15 scientific and technical achievements that have been selected for further Academy Awards consideration. Next Limit is delighted to see that RealFlow4 is amongst the competing candidates.

The Awards Committee will meet in early December to vote on recommendations to the Board of Governors, which will make the final awards decisions.

To view the official press release, please click here.

12 September 2007

Realflowforum.com announces competition winner. To see the video, go here!.

More news and updates here...

11 September 2007

New! Case study for Discovery Channel by Fusion CIS.

07 September 2007

More RF4 resources! 4 new scenes just published in the training/resources section. Check them out here.

07 September 2007

RF_Magazine launches its first edition. For more information click here.

30 August 2007

New! Case study for BMW spot by Pictorion das Wer.

28 August 2007

New ShowReel just published with two new scenes! View ShowReel & See scenes

21 August 2007

Character-environment interaction scripts pack available from this website soon!. For more information see video

31 July 2007

Primeval fantastic new Case Study from Luma Pictures. Find out more.

30 July 2007

NEW Digital Tutors DVD available now for RF4! For more information please click here.

13 July 2007

New Case study: See With A Twist Studios's impressive new spot for Amp’d Mobile, using RF4 for all liquid VFX!

10 July 2007

We are proud to announce the release of version 4.3 of RealFlow and a brand new webpage...!

 

22 April 2009

New RealFlow plugin available for 3D Studio Max 2010! For Windows 32 and 64 bits. Download them now from the Customer Download site or click here for a demo version.

14 April 2009

Updated plugin for Xsi. Moving BIN file bug now fixed. Download it now from the Customer Download Site or click here for a demo version.

3 April 2009

Plugins for Maya and XSI updated. Including major bug fixes. Download them now from the Customer Download site, or click here for a demo version.

30 March 2009

New RealFlow plugin with ICE integration available for XSI version 7.x! For Windows 32/64 and Linux 64 bits. Download it now from the Customer Download Site or click here for a demo version.

26 March 2009

3DS Max plugin for RealFlow updated. To see the new and improved features, please download the plugin from the Customer Download site, or click here for a demo version.

23 March 2009

Cinema 4D plugins updated for Windows and Mac. SD importer bug fixed. Download now from the Customer Download site, or click here for a demo version

03 February 2009

New RealFlow plugin for Cinema 4D v. 11, for Mac and Windows 32 and 64! Download it now from the Customer Download page.

3 November 2008

Updated plugin for Lightwave v.9.5 for Windows 32 and 64 now available. Click here to download it now.

30 October 2008

New plugin for Maya including version 2009 support now available for download! Versions for Win 32, 64, Mac and Linux. Click here to download it now!.

21 September 2008

Updated 3D Studio Max plugin and manual now available for download! Click here to download now.

18 September 2008

Softimage|XSI v. 7 plugin now also available for Linux 32 and 64! Click here to download it now.

2 September 2008
New plugin for Softimage|XSI v. 7 now available for Windows 32 and 64 bits! Click here to download it now .

13 August 2008

Updated plugin for 3D Studio Max available now for download!

23 July 2008

NEW! The new 3D Studio Max plugin for RealFlow is now available for download! The plugin is fully functional with all versions of 3DS Max from v. 7.0 to 2009, works with Particle Flow® and mental ray® and allows much quicker and easier uploading of meshes and particles.

22 April 2008

New RealFlow plugin for Cinema 4D 9.6 and 10 for Windows 64! Now available in the download area.

12 December 2007

New plug-in for XSi V6.5 and updated plug-ins for Versions 5.11 and 6.02 are now available for download.

13 November 2007

NEW update for RF4 x64 versions available now for download. This latest patch fixes a critical problem found when generating the mesh.

12 November 2007

New plugin for Lightwave 9.3 for Windows available now for download!

18 October 2007

New release! RF4 plug-ins for Maya 2008 are now available for download (Win/Linux/Mac).

04 October 2007

NEW update for RF4 available now for download. This latest patch fixes a critical problem found when exporting foam and wet/dry textures.

11 September 2007

New! Plug-in for OSX LightWave 9.3 UB available now for download.

16 August 2007

XSi plugin for Win 64 Bits available for download now! (version 6.02)

18 July 2007

NEW Win64 bit plugin now available for Lightwave! (versions 8.5 and 9)

10 July 2007

RF4 updated! Version 4.3 is available for download NOW!

To see what’s new click here!.
See the full release notes here!

10 July 2007

Cinema4D plug-ins: Updated versions are now available for both Windows and Mac!


 

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