Free tool of the day: Michał Gamrat's mgNodes for Maya
Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh.
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
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Brillstudio releases StockCG 1.5 for Maya
Updated: Browse stock content directly inside Maya via former MPC TD's new cloud-based marketplace.
Friday, November 29th, 2013
See Disney's snow simulation system recreated in Blender
Molecular add-on recreates Frozen's physics demo surprisingly accurately - albeit at much lower resolution.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Side Effects launches Houdini Engine plugins for Maya, Unity
Free experimental versions of the plugins let other apps import Houdini Digital Assets in editable form.
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Insydium announces X-Particles 2.5 for Cinema 4D
Powerful particle plugin adds new Fragmenter object, particle painting, plus wet maps, spray and foam.
Friday, November 15th, 2013
Autodesk Labs launches Project Khan
Free cloud-based system based on Donya Labs' Simplygon technology automates creation of LOD assets for games.
Thursday, November 14th, 2013
NewTek ships LightWave 11.6, NevronMotion, ChronoSculpt
LightWave updates and new tool for sculpting animation caches now shipping. See new videos of all three.
Friday, November 1st, 2013
Eloi Andaluz releases Demolition Master 1.6
3ds Max destruction plugin adds support for proxies, Bullet physics. The demo video is a lot of fun, too.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Ephere ships Lab for 3ds Max
Interesting new tool lets non-coders create their own standalone 3ds Max plugins by wiring nodes in a graph.
Tuesday, September 10th, 2013
Sneak peek: Raylight's XrayCat 1.5 for Max
Updated and now shipping: 3ds Max animation toolkit gets new Pose Manager, better joystick controllers.
Friday, September 6th, 2013
Motiva releases Exposure Control plugin for V-Ray
Handy free plugin lets 3ds Max users simulate real-life film stocks and bleach bypass effects.
Tuesday, August 20th, 2013
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Blender beta
Blender joins growing list of apps to work natively with the GPU-based renderer. Calls for Modo growing.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
Anzovin Studio releases The Setup Machine for Games
New version of the Maya auto-rigging plugin now supports game engines including Unreal Engine and Unity.
Monday, July 29th, 2013