Thunder Cloud ships GMH 2.6 for Maya
Neat MEL script lets you model hair as geometry, then covert it to Maya Hair - and now also to poly strips.
Friday, May 15th, 2015
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Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Allegorithmic ships free Substance plugin for C4D
Import procedural materials in Substance format into any edition of the software except Cinema 4D Lite.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
RandomControl updates ArionFX for Photoshop
Updated: New tool for editing and tonemapping rendered HDRs adds ability to open multi-layer EXR files.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2015
Hurleyworks ships Advance Placement 1.0
Neat LightWave plugin lets users paint instances into a scene complete with built-in dynamics.
Monday, May 4th, 2015
Get 35 free Photoshop plugins for CG artists
Get Richard Rosenman's handy set of particles, fractal and video effects add-ons, all newly updated to 64-bit.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
Kinematic Lab ships Atom for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's neat motion graphics plugin creates particle-based effects similar to After Effects' Plexus.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
Otoy ships OctaneRender for Nuke
Live linking plugin lets users render native 3D geometry or ORBX scenes in OctaneRender from within Nuke.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Project Groomboy calls for beta testers
Intriguing procedural Maya grooming tool works with nHair, XGen, plus key hair plugins. Sign up to test it now.
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 4.0
Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015
RE:Vision Effects ships new versions of RSMB, Twixtor
GPU-accelerated editions of motion blur and retiming plugins available for HitFilm, Natron and Autodesk compositing apps.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Nvidia launches Iray 2015
GPU-based renderer gets support for instancing, AxF material format. New Maya plugin and server edition also in development.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Insydium releases X-Particles 3
Updated, now shipping: Cinema 4D particle tool gets new FLIP fluid solver, particle-based dynamics.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015