Hans Godard releases RBF Solver for Maya
Naughty Dog TD's neat add-on automatically fires off complex correctives to fix mesh deformation issues in rigs.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
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Unreal Engine 4.7 ships
Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2015
Epic to offer $50,000 grants for indie Unreal projects
Money available for shorts and visualisations as well as games - and even student class projects.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Get A&G Tool Company's free V-Ray clay template
Downloadable 3ds Max template turns any model into an attractive clay-shaded turntable animation.
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Miquel Campos releases mGear for Maya for free
Download this open source modular character rigging framework, based on the Gear system for Softimage.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
See Gnomon's eye-popping 2015 student reel
See a ten-minute compilation of the best new work created by full-time students at the leading CG school.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
The Animator's Survival Kit: now available on iOS, OS X
Updated: Digital edition of Richard Williams' animation bible also now available for Macs running iBooks.
Friday, January 30th, 2015
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 4.5
3D clothing design tool adds support for multiple avatars, plus FBX and OBJ export for animations.
Tuesday, January 27th, 2015
Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click
Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Luxion launches KeyShot Enterprise Edition
Includes a floating licence of the renderer, plus the animation, network render and VR modules.
Monday, January 12th, 2015
The Foundry releases Modo Indie and Marie Indie
Licensed for commercial work, aimed at indie games artists, and priced at just $300 and $150 a pop.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.6
Latest update adds 'experimental' new 3D UI system, better emissive materials and character animation.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2
Now shipping: update to After Effects 3D rendering plugin adds PBR, SSS, raytraced shadows, and more.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014