Exocortex Technologies ships Alembic plugin suite
Make better use of the open-source data-interchange format in 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and more.
Monday, March 5th, 2012
Maya
IKinema releases IKinema Action 2 for Maya
Stream motion-capture data directly into Maya for editing and retargeting with the newly rechristened plugin.
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
SpeedTree product line adds support for Cinema 4D
New 6.1.1 release of the vegetation-generation tool also improves FBX export to Maya, overall speed.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.2 for Maya
Latest update to crowd-simulation system adds support for Linux and the render engine of your choice.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Chaos Group ships V-Ray for Softimage
New Softimage port of the industry-standard renderer now out of beta and available for use.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Autodesk previews nHair simulation system for Maya
There's no guarantee that the tools will actually make it into Maya 2013, but the timing looks suggestive.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Control Maya or 3ds Max by iPhone with CadRemote
Maide releases free iPhone app for navigating 3D software. Mouse control and sketch tools cost $2.99.
Monday, February 6th, 2012
Mario Baldi creates free FiberMesh to Maya script
Another day, another free tool for exporting ZBrush 4R2b hair to the 3D app of your choice for rendering.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Render ZBrush hair in Max with FiberMesh to Splines
Updated: Export hair created with the recent ZBrush 4R2b update to 3ds Max - and now Maya and Blender.
Monday, January 30th, 2012
Thinkbox releases XMesh
Developer releases new animated geometry caching system for 3ds Max; Maya and Softimage to come.
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
CoreCG ships MentalCore rendering plugin for Maya
Updated: shading and lighting tool now officially shipping and updated for improved Maya Hair support.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Anzovin Studio develops Maya onion skinning plugin
Sign up now to beta test the new animation tool, due for a commercial release next month.
Friday, January 20th, 2012
Miguel Winfield ships MGtools 2.5
Latest version of Maya animators' toolkit includes automated real-time scene-recovery system.
Thursday, December 29th, 2011