PSOFT releases CharacterBox for Modo
Cool new character animation plugin rigs anything from bipeds to creepy crawlies in a few clicks.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
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Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2
Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Blender Cloud releases BlenRig 5
Download the first offical release of the 'feature film quality' auto-rigging and skinning system for Blender.
Monday, January 18th, 2016
Unity 5.2 ships
Game engine adds support for Windows 10, native integration with Visual Studio, plus new lightmap baking and Biped import options.
Friday, September 11th, 2015
RebelHill releases RHiggit! V2 for LightWave
Rig and animate anything from birds and bats to arachnids with Craig Monins' powerful modular toolset.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2014
Download this free Max rig for ultra-stretchy characters
Character TD Ahmed Shalaby's biped rig creates awesome stylised animation. Worth it just for the video.
Tuesday, May 20th, 2014
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 3.1
Maya crowd-simulation system gets new visual debugging system, support for Arnold's mtoa 1.x plugin.
Friday, February 28th, 2014
Mixamo releases Fuse 'universal character creator'
Free tool generates custom male and female characters in OBJ format, licensed for commercial use.
Friday, January 24th, 2014
Video: new R&D work in Autodesk's Project Geppetto
Watch characters interacting automatically with chairs and stairs in 3ds Max's crowd-animation system.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2013
Mixamo makes Auto-Rigger free for low-poly meshes
Use the online tool to generate a 3ds Max or Maya rig for any biped character under 10,000 triangles.
Monday, June 11th, 2012
3ds Max 2013 gets built-in animation store
Browse, edit and buy thousands of motion clips from within 3ds Max via the new Mixamo-powered service.
Friday, April 13th, 2012