CG Channel

Basefount

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

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.

Saturday, January 15th, 2022

Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Maya crowd simulation tool now supports a wider range of character rigs for crowd agents. Viewport and rendering performance improved.

Thursday, June 13th, 2019

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Maya crowd animation tool gets layered caches for rigid body dynamics, new 'self clone' option to increase density in flocking sims.

Friday, August 24th, 2018

Maya crowd-simulation software gets new flocking system and simulation cache-editing options, plus support for layered caches.

Thursday, April 5th, 2018

Maya crowd simulation tool gets new 'brain share' feature for AI agents, improved Direct Logic engine and instancing system.

Friday, December 1st, 2017

Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

Maya crowd simulation software gets new blendshape pipeline for handling facial animation, plus new tools for editing simulation caches.

Monday, February 20th, 2017

See amazing work being created with the Maya crowd simulator, including epic VFX from Ant-Man and San Andreas.

Thursday, January 19th, 2017

Update to Maya crowd simulator helps automate collision avoidance and path following in 3D space.

Monday, January 16th, 2017

Maya crowd-simulation tool now lets crowd agents float in water, or get up after being turned into ragdolls.

Friday, May 27th, 2016