Mixamo makes Auto-Rigger free for low-poly meshes
Use the online tool to generate a 3ds Max or Maya rig for any biped character under 10,000 triangles.
Monday, June 11th, 2012
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Chaos Group celebrates ten years of V-Ray
Developer marks the renderer's first decade with special anniversary website and new online giveaways.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Cebas quadruples CPU core power of finalRender
Service Pack 9 adds support for 3ds Max 2013, raises number of CPU cores per licence from 16 to 64.
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Export from Blender to Maxwell Render with BtoMW
Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Watch over 60 free animation reference videos
See reference moves in slow motion and with grid overlays on Endless Reference's YouTube channel.
Thursday, May 17th, 2012
RayFire 1.58 adds support for Bullet physics
3ds Max destruction toolset adds new Entropy Bullet plugin and even more new fragmentation options.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Luxion releases 3ds Max import plugin for KeyShot
New free add-on enables users to import 3ds Max models or scenes into the real-time raytrace renderer.
Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Autodesk releases 123D Catch for iPad
Image-based modelling tool once known as Project Photofly released as free app for iPad 2 and above.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
RigMesh: putting the fun back into rigging
Sketch the outline of a character and have this nifty automatic rigging tool create a mesh and IK skeleton.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Wayne Robson to ship two cool free Mudbox tools
Mudbox star to release import/export toolkit MudWalkerX and intelligent polygon-reduction tool ReDucto.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
One to try: appleseed
It may be yet another open source physically based renderer - but it's being written specifically with production in mind.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
GIMP 2.8 released
Open-source image editor gets new UI and tools and... sweet Jesus, is that really a single-window mode?
Friday, May 4th, 2012
Luxology releases trial versions of modo 601
Get a 15-day licence for free, or pay $25 for the Production Evaluation edition and its extra video training.
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012