Coolorus releases colour wheel for Adobe tools
Put a Painter-style colour wheel inside Flash or Photoshop with this inexpensive little add-on.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
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Marius Silaghi releases TurboSmooth Pro for Max
Handy new plugin offers more controllable semi-sharp creases, based on Pixar's subdivision tech.
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Di-O-Matic ships Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) 2.0
Automated lip-sync plugin gets expanded language support, new quality presets, and new Pro edition.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
Bjorn Klaasen releases TrackMaker for Maya
Create tracks for racing games (or anything else) with this specialised but weirdly compelling toolset.
Tuesday, August 28th, 2012
cebas releases demo of thinkingParticles 5
Try the new Bullet physics and soft-body solvers in the 3ds Max plugin with this non-time-limited trial.
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Imagination unveils Caustic Visualizer for Maya
New plugin based on the PowerVR Brazil SDK provides interactive raytraced previews inside Maya.
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Goodmotion releases GM FoldLayers for After Effects
Free beta of new plugin lets users arrange AE layers in foldable groups, eliminating precomps
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Autodesk releases preview of augmented reality plugin
It's for Showcase, not 3ds Max or Maya, but it's still a work in progress, so anything could yet happen.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Anzovin Studio demos new Maya breakdown tool
Upcoming tool creates breakdowns based on quaternions, not Euler angles, avoiding gimbal lock.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Mootzoid's emPolygonizer4 for Softimage ships
See the particle-meshing plugin melt the Stanford bunny model into a puddle of multicoloured glop.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Thinkbox Software announces Draft
New plugin for the Deadline render manager automates creation of contact sheets and QuickTimes.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Motion Tools 1.0: do motion graphics in Softimage
Gustavo Boehs' free collection of ICE-based tools automates common motion graphics tasks.
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases Jiggle for 3ds Max
New plugin simulates muscle and skin sliding without complex rigs; results in unnerving demo video.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012