Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
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Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Graph Editor, new tools for tweening character poses, and new spline IK system.
Thursday, July 29th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.1
First commercial release of the unusual physics-based animation app adds neat new Auto Physics tool. Still free to indie users, too.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
mGear team ships mGear 3.7
Big update to the open-source Maya rigging framework adds new tools to auto-rig game characters, and for using mGear rigs in UE4.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2020.3b
New free beta of the promising physics and AI-based animation tool adds an auto-keying system.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2
Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Nukeygara unveils the 2019 Akeytsu product roadmap
Updated: October 2019 release adds support for additive layers to the unconventional animation tool.
Tuesday, October 29th, 2019
Adobe discontinues Fuse
Free 3D character generator will not be updated for macOS 10.15 next month, and all downloads will be removed in September 2020.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Rokoko launches facial capture add-on for its mocap systems
New iPhone X app lets you capture facial animation alongside full-body data and stream it to UE4, Unity or MotionBuilder.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
IKMAX lets you rig characters in 'seconds, not minutes'
3DtoAll's plugin aims to let 3ds Max, C4D and Maya users 'avoid tedious s**t' in rigging and skinning.
Thursday, October 4th, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.5 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into WebGL apps relaxes restrictions on physical materials; adds anisotropic texture filtering.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2018
Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya
Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Nukeygara ships Akeytsu 1.0
Now shipping: innovative new tool aims to rethink rigging and animation for artists, not engineers. Check out the feature set here.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017