CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 2025.0
Big update to the 3D clothing design tool adds a new fur material, new keyframe animation capabilities, and a modular garment library.
Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
IK
Richard Rosenman releases IK Studio for After Effects
New native After Effects plugin provides a fast, efficient way to create IK rigs for arms and legs for character animation.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2025
SideFX releases Houdini 20.5: check out its five key features
Discover the key changes in the procedural 3D software: from the revolutionary Copernicus framework to rigging, animation and simulation.
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
Foundry ships Modo 17.0
Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and rendering app in the first major update since Foundry's reboot of its development strategy.
Monday, March 4th, 2024
Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo
Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.
Monday, November 21st, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets global rotation kinematics, improved auto-posing.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
10 subtle mistakes to avoid in character animation
Pixar animator Eddy Okba reveals the subtle errors that even experienced artists often miss.
Tuesday, March 1st, 2022
Download the new free edition of Auto Character Setup
Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.3.6
Unusual character animation tool gets new silhouette render mode, better handling of mirrored rigs.
Wednesday, April 7th, 2021
mGear team ships mGear 3.7
Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Adobe releases Character Animator 3.4
Puppet animation app's Speech-Aware Animation system creates head movements from audio files.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2
Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Download the free Rocket Girl rig for Blender and Maya
Get this neat full-body and facial rig, created by movie animators Vladimir Mokhov and Luciano Muñoz Sessarego.
Sunday, September 27th, 2020