Discover the key features of Houdini 20
Read our run-down of the key changes in the largest ever update to Houdini, from character animation to rendering and machine learning.
Thursday, November 9th, 2023
keyframe animation
Free tool Masterpiece X lets you 'remix' characters in VR
Interesting new app lets users create custom game content from an online library of CC0 assets.
Friday, June 23rd, 2023
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.2
Innovative character animation app gets revamped animation layer system, neat animatable sculpt tool.
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2023
3D software gets new soft body physics and symmetry modelling systems, OpenColorIO support. Updates are now subscription-only.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.1
Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
Adobe releases Character Animator 4.2
Puppet animation software gets workflow updates including auto-recovery of damaged project files.
Monday, May 10th, 2021
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.0
Neat next-gen animation tool aims to rethink character work for VFX and feature animation pipelines.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Adobe releases Character Animator 3.3
See the new features in Adobe's tool for generating real-time puppet animation from video footage.
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020
EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
Adobe unveils new Photoshop and Character Animator tools
See previews of a neat update to Content-Aware Fill and Character Animator's new keyframe system.
Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
Unity Technologies unveils Unity 2020 product roadmap
See details of the new features coming to the game engine across Unity 2020.1, 2020.2 and 2020.3
Friday, September 27th, 2019
Reallusion ships iClone 7.1
Update to real-time character animation tool overhauls the DoF system and animation timeline; adds paid-for Curve Editor plugin.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2017