Clovis Gay releases Fur Guides Painter for 3ds Max
New plugin lets users style hair faster than with Max's native tools, and paint hair guides freehand.
Monday, February 17th, 2014
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Blender Institute to oversee full-length animated movie
Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 1.3
Maya fur plugin adds procedural feather geometry, new grooming tools, support for OpenSubdiv.
Friday, December 13th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Video: how to build a digital chimpanzee in Softimage
See The Mill's painstaking muscle and skin simulation work on its new ad for animal rights charity PETA.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Ezequiel Mastrasso releases eze Shader Suite
Free collection of 3Delight and RenderMan shaders simplifies the process of lighting hair and fur.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
Motiva releases Thea for 3ds Max
New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.
Tuesday, February 19th, 2013
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R4
Major free update adds retopology tools, new Insert Multi Mesh system, (almost) unlimited undos. Very cool.
Thursday, July 26th, 2012
Yeti fur plugin will not be sold in the United States
Patent wrangle with Shave and a Haircut developer Joe Alter stops Maya add-on being sold in the US.
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Peregrine Labs releases Yeti 1.1 for Maya
Promising new fur-and-feathers generation plugin adds support for the Arnold and V-Ray renderers.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Chaos Group releases update to V-Ray for Maya 2.0
Free upgrade adds dedicated new hair material, improvements to GPU-based interactive preview renderer.
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
Wayne Robson creates free FiberMesh-to-Max plugin
You wait a week for a tool to convert ZBrush 4R2b hair to splines, then two come along at once.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Render ZBrush hair in Max with FiberMesh to Splines
Updated: Export hair created with the recent ZBrush 4R2b update to 3ds Max - and now Maya and Blender.
Monday, January 30th, 2012