Joe Alter adds 3D paint tools to LipService for Maya
Current beta of the promising facial sculpting and animation plug-in gains intuitive 3D painting toolset.
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Maya
Autodesk announces three free Max and Maya webinars
Sign up for online workshops on pre-viz, games character creation and creative visualisation.
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Autodesk hires mental ray wizard Zap Andersson
Integration of mental ray and iray into 3ds Max and Maya takes an unexpected turn for the better.
Friday, September 30th, 2011
Basefount releases 52 video tutorials for Miarmy
Watch a complete video guide to this cool new Maya crowd-simulation system: full release next month.
Monday, September 26th, 2011
Nadav Brill releases free shader manager for Maya
Use ShaderMonger to preview and back up custom shader libraries, then share them on its website.
Thursday, September 15th, 2011
Miarmy Express: free crowd simulation for Maya?
New plug-in offers fuzzy logic-driven AI, physics engine and RIB output. Can anyone tell us if it works?
Tuesday, September 13th, 2011
OC3 Entertainment releases FaceFX 2012
New version of leading automated facial animation system now also supports full-body movements.
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Autodesk calls for entries for 2011 Design Viz reel
Get your work seen by thousands of industry taste-makers: Maya and Mudbox artists can apply, as well.
Monday, September 12th, 2011
Watch Autodesk's Siggraph 2011 masterclasses online
Free training sessions on next-gen head modelling, animation in Maya and Softimage, and VFX in Max.
Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 2
Game-focused texturing app gains vector paint, CrazyBump-style toolkit, OS X support and $350 Lite edition.
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Autodesk inks licensing deal with Disney
Gains five years' exclusive access to XGen Arbitrary Primitive Generator technology used on Bolt and Tangled.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Siggraph 2011: Maya to get native Bullet physics
New Advantage Pack also adds support for the Alembic data interchange format, new Node Editor.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
AAA Studio releases FurryBall 2.1 for Maya
Production-proven GPU-accelerated renderer gains support for real-time DoF, Bokeh effects, motion blur.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011