AXYZ design ships anima 5.0

Crowd simulation system for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and UE5 gets new AI-based 'neural crowds' engine, and physical motion blur.

Monday, October 3rd, 2022

AXYZ Design launches anima ALL subscriptions

All-in-one deal includes crowd animation tool anima and 1,600 3D characters for under $800/year.

Monday, May 31st, 2021

AXYZ design ships anima 4.1

3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.

Wednesday, December 30th, 2020

AXYZ design ships anima 3.5

3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation plugin's new 'alive' technology synchronises cameras and geometry with the host app.

Tuesday, September 25th, 2018

AXYZ design ships anima 3

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D gets new Unreal Engine plugin, multi-scene loader, physically based render engine.

Friday, November 24th, 2017

AXYZ design ships Anima 2.5

3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool gets new mask based character variation system, Collada and V-Ray scene export.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2017

AXYZ design ships Anima 2

Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Chaos releases Anima 6.2 with extended traffic simulation

Check out the new features in the streamlined crowd and traffic simulation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, October 9th, 2025

Anima 6.0 adds traffic simulation to Chaos's crowd animation tool

Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine gets a complete traffic simulation system, and a new viewport renderer.

Tuesday, April 15th, 2025

Chaos ends perpetual licenses of crowd animation tool anima

Perpetual anima Pro licenses and sales of individual metropoly 3D stock characters discontinued in favor of anima All subscriptions.

Friday, August 2nd, 2024

Chaos acquires AXYZ design

V-Ray and Corona developer buys the creator of architectural crowd animation tool anima and the metropoly range of 3D characters.

Tuesday, July 11th, 2023

AXYZ design releases an(i)ma 1.7.1

Updated: Crowd animation tool for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D now also available for Mac. Price down, too.

Friday, February 27th, 2015

e-on ships LumenRT Studio 2015 and GeoDesign 2015

Real-time visualisation tools get new 'DIVE' core engine, bringing in tech from Vue and PlantFactory.

Friday, October 31st, 2014