Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics
Buyout of leading character rigging and simulation tools developer strengthens Unity's portfolio of digital human and creature tech.
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
character rigging
Download the new free edition of Auto Character Setup
Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3
Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Get VR creation software Masterpiece Studio Pro for free
New non-commercial edition lets you use the suite of VR sculpting and character rigging tools for personal projects.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.3
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Animation Cycles system for seamlessly looping any character movement.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
Unity acquires Weta Digital for $1.6 billion
Firm aims to put Weta's legendary in-house VFX tools 'into the hands of millions of artists' worldwide.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.1
Maya-friendly character animation software adds USD import, audio and video editing, new Picker Tool.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021
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
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
Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS
See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.
Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021