Ragdoll Dynamics adds real-time physics to your Maya rigs
Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
Character Animation
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
Reallusion launches AI Voice Actors plugin for iClone
Free plugin linking Replica Studios' AI voice system to iClone turns text into voice-acted facial animation.
Thursday, July 15th, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.
Monday, July 12th, 2021
Weta Digital unveils WetaM
New cloud-based service will let VFX artists use 100 of Weta's Academy Award-winning in-house tools inside a custom build of Maya.
Thursday, June 17th, 2021
How to create stylized facial rigs for production in Maya
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create professional rigs for cartoon-style characters.
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
Adobe releases Character Animator 4.2
Puppet animation software gets workflow updates including auto-recovery of damaged project files.
Monday, May 10th, 2021
Discover how to create FACS facial blendshapes in Maya
Master facial modelling for animation with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new tutorial.
Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Maxon ships Cinema 4D S24
Subscriber-only update to the 3D animation software adds new asset browser and scene manager, and new physics-enabled layout tools.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Master character rigging in Maya for game development
Master essential games art workflows with this five-hour Gnomon Workshop masterclass.
Thursday, April 8th, 2021
Reallusion ships iClone 7.9
Real-time character animation tool gets AccuLips automated lip-sync system, new 'Expression Plus' set of scan-based facial blend shapes.
Thursday, March 25th, 2021
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2022
Motion-capture editing tool gets support for Python 3 and quite a range of workflow improvements.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Bondware ships Poser 12
First major update to the figure posing and animation software in five years adds RTX-accelerated ray tracing, CPU render denoising.
Monday, February 1st, 2021