Milan Suk releases BulletSOP 2.0 for Houdini
New free tool creates ultra-complex rigid-body simulations in Houdini using the Bullet physics toolset.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
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Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 8
UV unwrapping tool now handles million-triangle meshes and outputs multi-grid UVs for use in Mari.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Animators' Toolkit for 3ds Max "creates cool stuff, faster"
$25 suite of scripts created by two VFX veterans boosts common rigging and animation tasks.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.0
Renderfarm manager gets intuitive new graph view, MongoDB backend, built-in cloud management tools.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Allegorithmic releases B2M Lite for iOS and Android
Create texture maps on the move with this free version of Bitmap2Material for mobile devices.
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Eye candy: MPC's Life of Pi VFX breakdown
Check out a four-minute breakdown of the studio's Oscar-winning work, including two key storm sequences.
Monday, June 3rd, 2013
Download Ten24's free hi-res scan of a human skull
Available as a ZBrush 4R5 ZTL file or decimated OBJ, and licensed for use in commercial work.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Blender to get sketch mesh editing, deformation blur?
Just two of fifteen Blender development projects to be funded by Google's Summer of Code 2013.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Pilgway ships 3D-Coat 4.0
Now out of beta: voxel sculpting package gets new Live Clay dynamic mesh system and 3D paint tools.
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
Our pick of Siggraph 2013's emerging technologies
New research on show ranges from weird Kinect tricks to using your bathwater as a touchscreen interface.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Cool tech: Disney Research's DuctTake compositor
See the system merge two takes of a shot with no more artist input than a few quick scribbles on the footage.
Wednesday, May 29th, 2013
Next Limit ships RealFlow 2013
Long-awaited update adds Alembic support, GPU-accelerated Hybrido 2 fluid solver, new Relationship Editor.
Tuesday, May 28th, 2013