Kinematic Lab releases TopoLogiK for 3ds Max

Neat new $35 plugin lets users retopologise models by drawing poly sheets across their surface.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

SideFX ships Houdini 17

Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018

Master current workflows in VFX Animation for Television

Create a complete creature shot in Maya with Supergirl animation lead Elaina Scott's new Gnomon tutorial.

Saturday, October 6th, 2018

Review: Dell Precision 7920 Tower workstation

Jason Lewis puts Dell's top-of-the-range graphics workstation through a battery of real-world DCC tasks.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

IKMAX lets you rig characters in 'seconds, not minutes'

3DtoAll's plugin aims to let 3ds Max, C4D and Maya users 'avoid tedious s**t' in rigging and skinning.

Thursday, October 4th, 2018

Vahan Sosoyan ships Aton 1.3

Lighting TD's free 'Arnold to Nuke display plugin' lets users render directly into Nuke's UI from Maya, Cinema 4D - and now Houdini.

Monday, September 24th, 2018

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.2

Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL.

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

Free tool MeshSync live links Unity to DCC software

Open-source app syncs geometry, lights and cameras between Unity and 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and MotionBuilder.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

Unreal Studio now free until November 2019

Suite of tools for getting CAD data into Unreal Engine for visualisation to stay in open beta another year.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2018

Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22

Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.

Monday, September 10th, 2018

Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5

Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.

Friday, September 7th, 2018

Master the art of Dynamic Animal Sculpting

Recreate accurate animal anatomy in ZBrush with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.

Tuesday, September 4th, 2018

Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4

New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.

Friday, August 31st, 2018