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facial animation

Check out the new features, price and release date for the next major update to the 3D character creation software for games and VFX.

Thursday, April 10th, 2025

Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.

Friday, December 27th, 2024

Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2024

Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

Thursday, October 31st, 2024

Sizeable update to the AI-assisted animation app adds AutoPhysics based character interaction, and support for facial blendshapes.

Thursday, September 12th, 2024

Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024

Unusual tool for creating software-agnostic animation libraries gets new AI-based markerless full-body motion-capture system

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2024

Maya developer snaps up the startup behind the much-discussed AI-based online VFX platform. Read our FAQs on the buyout.

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024

Check out the changes ijn the 3D modeling and rendering software, including updates to retopology, OCIO color management and USD.

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

Popular plugin for creating 3D head models from source photos of an actor gets streamlined new one-click texturing workflow.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

New plugins make it easy to use NVIDIA's free AI-based facial animation system to create lip sync for iClone animations.

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024