animation

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

Autodesk announces Flow

First product to be released on Autodesk's new 'industry cloud' for M&E work like VFX and game dev will 'focus on asset management'.

Tuesday, September 27th, 2022

Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.2

Unusual physics-based animation software gets global rotation kinematics, improved auto-posing.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

Autodesk launches Maya Creative

Use Maya's core tools for $3/day with this new cut-down edition for freelancers and smaller studios.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Autodesk ships Maya 2023.2

3D modelling and animation app gets faster viewport animation playback, plus updates to the rigging and Blue Pencil toolsets.

Thursday, September 15th, 2022

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2023.2

3D app gets new parametric Array modifier for tasks ranging from procedural modelling to motion-graphics-type effects.

Wednesday, September 14th, 2022

Blender 3.3 LTS ships

See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.

Wednesday, September 7th, 2022