Ryan Kittleson releases Ryan's Tools 1.3 for ZBrush
Handy free plugin fixes common niggles when sculpting, painting or working with cameras in ZBrush.
Sunday, June 9th, 2019
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Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 4
Unique digital painting software gets more particle systems, new brush editor, symmetry painting.
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
Pixologic ships ZBrush 2019.1
Free update to the digital sculpting software adds new split screen mode, option to import up to 64 cameras at a time, plugin updates.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
PSD to 3D turns Photoshop sketches into 3D scenes
Convert your 2D drawings into animatable 3D meshes in Maya with e→d films' neat new tool.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2019
Richard Rosenman releases Particle Projection 1.0
New After Effects motion graphics plugin uses displacement to generate animated particle arrays.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Pixar ships RenderMan 22.5
Update adds support for live displacement editing, SIMD acceleration for OSL. Houdini integration "completely rewritten".
Thursday, May 9th, 2019
Check out free Nuke deep compositing toolkit DeepC
Handy set of open-source Nuke plugins makes deep compositing more accessible to smaller studios.
Monday, May 6th, 2019
Get free plugins from iClone's new online marketplace
Download seven free add-ons for the character animation software, from utility tools to rigging systems.
Wednesday, May 1st, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020
Now shipping: compositing software gets AI-driven depth and normal map generators, support for Cryptomatte and OFX plugins.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2019
Sneak peek: Video Copilot's new Nebula 3D plugin
Video: see footage created with the firm's cool-looking new 3D volumetrics tool for After Effects.
Friday, April 12th, 2019
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
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