Hans Godard ships Skinning Converter for Maya

Naughty Dog TD's nifty plugin turns any animated mesh into a bone based rig - even Alembic caches and cloth sims.

Wednesday, October 21st, 2015

Hans Godard releases Switch Constraint for Maya

Switch a driven object between driver objects at a mouse click with the Naughty Dog TD's handy plugin.

Saturday, July 11th, 2015

Hans Godard releases RBF Solver for Maya

Naughty Dog TD's neat add-on automatically fires off complex correctives to fix mesh deformation issues in rigs.

Monday, March 9th, 2015

Check out neat AI-trained hand mocap tool HandCraft Pro

Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Monday, March 10th, 2025

Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini

Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.

Thursday, December 14th, 2017

BlendShape Monitor for Maya helps fix your messy character rigs

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Monday, February 2nd, 2026

Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.6 for Maya

Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat anatomy transfer function ports rigs from one character to another.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Fabric Software announces Fabric Engine 2.6

Platform for developing VFX and games tools gets support for USD, Autodesk's AnimX, new RBF solver.

Friday, August 4th, 2017