Insydium announces X-Particles 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Powerful particle plugin adds new Fragmenter object, particle painting, plus wet maps, spray and foam.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Free Resources
Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
Unity 4.3 adds new 2D tools and blendshape animation
Updated, now shipping: there's a new markerless facial mocap plugin and the Unity Cloud program, too.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
Review: LightWave 11.0 to 11.6
Andy Bishop looks back over NewTek's11.x series of releases, and assesses what comes next.
Monday, November 11th, 2013
Get 15 different grass clumps in MAX, OBJ and FBX format
Download architectural visualisation pro Mischa Winkler's useful free asset. Licensed for commercial use.
Saturday, November 9th, 2013
MARA3D releases Mara Monsters for iOS and Android
Free new anatomy reference app helps ensure your fantastic creatures have perfect proportions.
Friday, November 1st, 2013
NewTek ships LightWave 11.6, NevronMotion, ChronoSculpt
LightWave updates and new tool for sculpting animation caches now shipping. See new videos of all three.
Friday, November 1st, 2013
Side Effects Software ships Houdini 13
Update adds cool new soft and hard body, particle and fluid simulation tools; more robust lighting workflow.
Thursday, October 31st, 2013
xoio releases 34 new free photographic cutout people
Studio's latest set of cutouts shows models shot from high angles, all licensed for commercial work.
Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
Get Miguel Angel Santiago's free noise library for Mari
DT3D Mari Procedural Library adds nine new procedural types to the app, with scope to author new ones.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
nEyeMaker for Maya creates ultra-customisable eyeballs
Lighting artist Luca Fiorentini's free, fully procedural eye features appearance controls galore. Neat.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Autodesk releases Autodesk Remote
Free tool for users on subscription contracts lets you drive any Autodesk product from a remote computer.
Sunday, October 27th, 2013
Autodesk lifts geometry export cap from Maya LT
If you're exporting to Unity, at least. For FBX files, the new Extension release ups the limit to 65,000 polys.
Thursday, October 24th, 2013