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
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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
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
NextLimit adds OpenVDB support to RealFlow
Free update adds support for the DreamWorks-developed volumetric file format, over 70 new graph nodes.
Friday, October 18th, 2013
Video: use mocap data to drive 2D animation
See IKinema's free WebAnimate browser-based retargeting tool in use to create not 3D, but toon animation.
Friday, October 18th, 2013
Escape Motions releases Flame Painter for iOS
Quirky but surprisingly versatile digital painting software released as free app for iPhone and iPad.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
Autodesk Labs releases Project Miller
New free work-in-progress tool resurfaces meshes for 3D printing and troubleshoots common errors.
Monday, October 14th, 2013
Leopoly puts ZBrush-like tools inside your web browser
Not too many of them yet, mind, but Leonar3do's free online sculpting and 3D painting tool is well worth a look.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 1.5
Updated: innovative hybrid 2D/3D tool gets lots of new render features, Python and Alembic 1.5 support.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Cl3ver rolls out Cl3ver 1.1
Online tool for creating interactive 3D content gets new script and material editors, support for larger scenes.
Friday, October 4th, 2013
Faceware Technologies ships Analyzer 2.0, Retargeter 4.0
New Lite editions of the markerless facial mocap tools cut the price of a complete system to $1,190 per seat.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013