Navié releases Effex 2.0 for Cinema 4D
Plugin expands into full 'modular VFX framework', including particles, fluids and volumetric modelling.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013
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Side Effects announces Houdini Engine
API turns Houdini into "world’s most powerful plugin" for other DCC apps. Sign up to test the Maya and Unity plugins now.
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Mainframe North releases Mash 2.1 for Maya
Updated: Versatile set of tools for motion graphics in Maya get new Flight node for flocking and swarming effects.
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
Mir Vadim ships RayFire 1.62 for 3ds Max
And the demos of the destruction plugin's new voxelisation and clustering tools are pure eye candy.
Thursday, July 4th, 2013
Otoy ships Octane Render 1.2
Big update to GPU-based renderer adds volume fog, bokeh effects; better multi-threaded performance.
Friday, June 28th, 2013
Milan Suk releases BulletSOP 2.0 for Houdini
New free tool creates ultra-complex rigid-body simulations in Houdini using the Bullet physics toolset.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Animators' Toolkit for 3ds Max "creates cool stuff, faster"
$25 suite of scripts created by two VFX veterans boosts common rigging and animation tasks.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Sitni Sati ships FumeFX for Maya
Leading gaseous fluid simulator now available for Maya as well as Max. Runs on Windows and Linux.
Monday, May 27th, 2013
RE:Vision Effects ships RE:Match for Nuke, Fusion
Formerly After Effects and Premiere Pro-only color-matching plugin suite now available for OFX compositors.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Unity makes Android and iOS add-ons free to use
Pricing for the game engine's mobile add-ons cut from $400 to nothing if you're an indie developer.
Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
Quixel ships dDo 5.0
'Mega update' to Photoshop texturing tool adds Marmoset Skyshop HDR rendering, unlimited triangle count.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Cool tech videos: X-Particles 2 for Cinema 4D
Update to the particle plugin to add fluids, XPresso integration, full multi-threading. Check 'em all out here.
Friday, May 10th, 2013