AXYZ design ships anima 5.0
Crowd simulation system for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and UE5 gets new AI-based 'neural crowds' engine, and physical motion blur.
Monday, October 3rd, 2022
AI-trained
Check out promising browser-based AI mocap tool Plask
Neat tool extracts full body animation from video in FBX and BVH format. Now supports multi-person capture.
Saturday, September 3rd, 2022
Ziva Dynamics launches Ziva Face Trainer
Cloud-based AI facial rigging service generates 'real-time faces' for use in Maya, Unity and UE4.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Omniverse Audio2Face gets new Audio2Emotion system
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio now reflects emotions like joy and pain.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2022
Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5
Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
Autodesk invests in AI-based mocap platform RADiCAL
Firm aims to bring the cloud-based mocap system to new professional visual effects and animation users.
Friday, May 27th, 2022
SketchUp for iPad is now out of beta
Check out the new AI-based and AR features in the iPad edition of the architectural sketching app.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Nvidia's free Canvas app turns doodles into matte paintings
Updated: Canvas 1.2 update adds new style variations system to fine tune the look of generated images.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 6.5
Photogrammetry app gets integration with Unity's ArtEngine texture-processing tool, new Orthophoto Editor, USD export.
Thursday, March 10th, 2022
Color Intelligence unveils Colourlab Ai 2.0
See what's new in this big update to the hotly tipped AI-based color grading tool, now in public beta.
Saturday, February 26th, 2022
Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Omniverse Audio2Face now generates facial blendshapes
Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022