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
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Ziva Dynamics launches ZRT Face Trainer in beta
Sign up now to test this promising next-gen AI-trained automated facial rigging system for games.
Monday, November 22nd, 2021
Eye candy: Epic Games' new 'Slay' Unreal Engine demo
Watch the action-packed CG short, then download its fully rigged and animated lead character for free.
Wednesday, September 8th, 2021
Omniverse Audio2Face now supports Reallusion characters
Nvidia's free app now automatically lip syncs Character Creator head meshes to dialog in any language.
Saturday, August 7th, 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
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
Use Faceware Studio for free for six months
New PLE licences of the real-time facial mocap software can be used with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 10th, 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
Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator
Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
Omniverse Machinima and Audio2Face to enter beta
Nvidia's apps for remixing game assets and generating facial animation from audio files due in open beta this week.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.3.6
Unusual character animation tool gets new silhouette render mode, better handling of mirrored rigs.
Wednesday, April 7th, 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