Neat tool Mush3D lets you sculpt on animation caches
Updated with new product name. Sculpt corrective shapes on Alembic caches, or add cloth or jiggle deformation.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
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Adobe releases After Effects CC 15.1
Nifty new Master Properties system for managing nested comps, plus revamped puppet animation tools.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2018
Basefount ships Miarmy 5.2
Maya crowd simulation software gets new blendshape pipeline for handling facial animation, plus new tools for editing simulation caches.
Monday, February 20th, 2017
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2016’s technical papers
Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from new ways to 3D print Moomins to Schrödinger's Smoke.
Monday, May 30th, 2016
Hans Godard releases RBF Solver for Maya
Naughty Dog TD's neat add-on automatically fires off complex correctives to fix mesh deformation issues in rigs.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Marius Silaghi releases Deformation Cleaner
Neat 3ds Max modifier cleans up bad deformations on animated models without losing mesh detail.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Coloremblem releases free muscle system for Blender
Create basic muscle deformations with this new tool, intended to spark more developer interest in the topic.
Wednesday, July 9th, 2014
3rd Powers ships five new LightWave plugins
Cage Deformer, Lattice Deformer, Meta Mesh, Boolean Tool and Heat Shrink Plus manipulate complex geometry in real time.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
Free tool of the day: Michał Gamrat's mgNodes for Maya
Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh.
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
Marius Silaghi releases Jiggle for 3ds Max
New plugin simulates muscle and skin sliding without complex rigs; results in unnerving demo video.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012