Adobe releases Character Animator 3.4
Puppet animation app's Speech-Aware Animation system creates head movements from audio files.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2020
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Marius Silaghi ships Unwrap Pro for 3ds Max
Promising new UV unfolding plugin gives 'low-distortion, overlap-free' results even on complex models.
Thursday, April 27th, 2017
Microsoft buys Simplygon
Intelligent polygon reduction and LOD technology used on games like The Witcher 3 to form part of firm's '3D For Everyone' strategy.
Thursday, January 19th, 2017
Eisko launches automated online facial rigging service
Rig on Demand system generates a complete bone and blendshape based rig for any humanoid head.
Thursday, October 20th, 2016
Lucas Veber releases Auto-Rig Pro
Minions animator's $10 Blender add-on creates detailed, production ready full-body and facial rigs.
Monday, August 22nd, 2016
See 3D-Coat's cool new QuadPaint retopo toolset
Neat work-in-progress system lets users retopologise models easily by drawing surface patch boundaries.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2016
Artomatix launches Materialize
Cool new cloud-based service uses an AI-driven system to tile, extend or 'mutate' game textures automatically.
Wednesday, April 13th, 2016
Keller.io ships Superpose
Updated: Neat tool automatically creates clean background plates from video footage. Now available for After Effects as well as Nuke.
Monday, October 12th, 2015
Mario Röske releases IPackThat
Piranha Bytes artist's handy UV packing tool promises better results in less time than packing by hand.
Friday, April 17th, 2015
Tech video: Adobe's #3DPhotoMagic demo
Experimental tool lets users drag 3D models into photos and matches alignment and lighting automatically.
Monday, October 20th, 2014
Amazon launches free online storyboarding tool
Amazon Storyteller takes scripts in RTF format and generates simple 2D storyboards automatically.
Monday, June 10th, 2013
ScriptAttack releases BonyFace 3.0 Extended
Updated: new version of bone based facial rigging plugin for 3ds Max adds phoneme-creation tools.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
OC3 Entertainment releases FaceFX 2012
New version of leading automated facial animation system now also supports full-body movements.
Monday, September 12th, 2011