Adobe discontinues Fuse
Free 3D character generator will not be updated for macOS 10.15 next month, and all downloads will be removed in September 2020.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
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Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems
New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
IKMAX lets you rig characters in 'seconds, not minutes'
3DtoAll's plugin aims to let 3ds Max, C4D and Maya users 'avoid tedious s**t' in rigging and skinning.
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya
Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0
Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Get four free Renderpeople 3D character models
Updated: New figures are fully rigged for 3ds Max, Maya, C4D. All are licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 12th, 2017
Fabric Software releases Fabric Engine 2.4
CG tool development platform gets native support for curves. Kraken rigging framework integrated, too.
Monday, January 23rd, 2017
Side Effects Software unveils Houdini roadmap
New features in Houdini 16 likely to include guided fluid sims, new muscle system, 'ground-up rewrite' of the node networks.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
PSOFT releases CharacterBox for Modo
Cool new character animation plugin rigs anything from bipeds to creepy crawlies in a few clicks.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2
Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Blender Cloud releases BlenRig 5
Download the first offical release of the 'feature film quality' auto-rigging and skinning system for Blender.
Monday, January 18th, 2016
Unity 5.2 ships
Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.
Friday, September 11th, 2015