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Games artist Adrian Melian's tool rigs and skins characters and exports USD files for use in Maya, UE5 or Blender. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, August 6th, 2026

Check out the eye-catching rigs now possible with the 'next-level' update to Zoo Tools Pro's modular rig-building system for Maya.

Wednesday, February 18th, 2026

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Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

iOS and Android scanning app now generates character rigs for the 3D models it generates. There are updates to the free edition, too.

Monday, July 29th, 2024

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Free add-on lets users pose CC characters from Reallusion's Character Creator inside UE5 using the MetaHuman interface.

Thursday, May 30th, 2024

Reallusion's free auto-rigging tool now also generates animated previews of your 3D characters to share with clients or collaborators.

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

Online service rigs 3D humanoids, animals and vehicles for use in real-time applications. Now comes with 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and UE5 add-ons.

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

Interesting new app lets users create custom game content from an online library of CC0 assets.

Friday, June 23rd, 2023

Character-creation tool gets long-awaited dynamic wrinkle system, better MetaHuman compatibility.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023

[Sponsored] Discover how to reuse one character in many projects with Reallusion's Character Creator 4.1.

Thursday, December 29th, 2022

Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.

Monday, November 21st, 2022

Character creation tool gets neat new auto-rigging system, new LOD creation and subdivision options.

Thursday, September 29th, 2022