DAZ 3D ships Victoria 7
Popular stock figure gets new facial rig, plus OpenSubdiv and UDIM support to increase compatibility with other 3D apps.
Thursday, June 25th, 2015
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Get Christophe Desse's free 3D character models
Download some of the Naughty Dog artist's creations, including an OBJ/FBX Space Soldier and a ZTL male human head.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2015
Gnomon releases guide to Character Concept Design
Three-hour Photoshop video shows how Weta Workshop concept designer Johnny Fraser-Allen tackles a real client brief.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Miquel Campos releases mGear for Maya for free
Download this open source modular character rigging framework, based on the Gear system for Softimage.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click
Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015
Get Ahmed Shalaby's free Shiko 3ds Max character rig
Download this stretchy, stylised rig from the Egyptian character TD. Comes with face and body controls.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
IKinema adds graph editor to WebAnimate
Updated: Free browser-based service gets new tools for stitching and retargeting motion clips.
Tuesday, November 11th, 2014
Download the free Mery character rig for Maya
Check out the Mery Project's impressive free rigged character. Ideal for student and demo work.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2014
Epic Games previews Unreal Engine 4.4
New car paint shading model, and updates to Persona. Subscribers also get 7 free Mixamo animations.
Monday, August 4th, 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
Download a free, fully rigged 3ds Max character
Get this cartoon figure, created with the BonyFace facial rigging system and the LH | Auto-Rig full-body rig.
Monday, February 3rd, 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