Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.6 for Maya
Soft tissue simulation plugin's neat anatomy transfer function ports rigs from one character to another.
Thursday, April 11th, 2019
Maya
AMD ships Radeon ProRender for Blender 2.0 in open beta
Free GPU renderer gets support for AI denoising, adaptive sampling, hair rendering. New versions for 3ds Max & Maya, too.
Wednesday, April 10th, 2019
Maxon buys Redshift
Cinema 4D developer acquires the well-regarded GPU production renderer. We assess what the buyout will mean for CG artists.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Eye candy: Autodesk's 2019 M&E showreel
See new work created in 3ds Max, Maya and Flame, from Fantastic Beasts to fabulous student shorts.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Chaos Group ships Phoenix FD 3.13 for 3ds Max and Maya
Fluid simulation tools get support for VDB particle caches. FLIP liquid simulations now 'up to 2x' faster.
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Erik Lehmann releases Mesh Toolkit for Maya
VFX TD's Python script extends Maya's mesh manipulation tools and adds new layout features.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Master SynthEyes tracking for production
Deadpool artist Kevin Bolivar's new Gnomon tutorial demystifies object and camera tracking for VFX work.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Rokoko's Motion Library is coming to Maya
New plugin to let users buy moves recorded by top Hollywood mocap studios within Maya for $3-6 each.
Friday, March 22nd, 2019
Review: Nvidia Titan RTX
Nvidia's new Turing GPU offers the power of a workstation card at a lower price. Jason Lewis puts it through his real-world 3D tests.
Monday, March 18th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service
Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.
Thursday, February 28th, 2019
Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo
Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.
Tuesday, February 26th, 2019
Download over 100 free Arnold materials from Visualact
Get 117 metal, plastic and ceramic materials as Maya scene files with 2,048px textures. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
Get SideFX's free AliceVision photogrammetry plugin
New plugin makes it possible to use the open-source image-based modelling framework from Houdini.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019