Adobe ships After Effects 18.0

Compositing app gets new real-time draft preview mode for 3D work. Separate beta build adds support for multi-frame rendering.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

Maxon acquires forger

Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.

Tuesday, March 9th, 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

Exlevel ships GrowFX 2.0

Long-awaited overhaul of the 3ds Max plant-generation plugin adds new Node Editor for authoring plants via visual programming.

Monday, March 8th, 2021