Nvidia releases new mental ray Alembic import shader
Free download adds support for hair and subdivision controls for NURBS and sub-Ds. Works with Maya 2015.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Maya
Mainframe North releases Mash 3.3 for Maya
Set of 27 handy motion graphics nodes now available on Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
LuxRender 1.4 ships
Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Miquel Campos releases mGear for Maya for free
Download this open source modular character rigging framework, based on the Gear system for Softimage.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
3Dconnexion unveils 'first mouse for CAD pros'
But don't let that put you off: the CadMouse comes with software profiles for 3ds Max and Maya too.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Autodesk to go subscription only on 1 February 2016
Firm to phase out perpetual licences of 3ds Max, Maya in favour of monthly or yearly pay-as-you-go pricing.
Wednesday, February 4th, 2015
Download 10 free Substance procedural materials
Get Arvin Villapando's new brick, rock and sidewalk materials, for use in Max, Maya, Modo, UDK or Unity.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 3.6
Control armies via natural language with the crowd simulation tool's new human language logic system.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
HDR Sets releases HDR Sets GUI 1.2 for free
Create Smart IBL lighting setups in Maya and V-Ray semi-automatically with this handy free helper script.
Thursday, January 22nd, 2015
Review: HP ZBook 15 mobile workstation
Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.
Thursday, January 15th, 2015
Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards
This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Free non-commercial version of FurryBall ships
Get the free version of the GPU renderer for Max, Maya and C4D. Not watermarked, but capped at full HD.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Quantum Human cleans and rigs characters in one click
Cool work-in-progress Maya plugin promises complete automatic character setup, including muscles and facial coding.
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015