Cool tech demo: create clouds with Elementacular
Updated and now shipping: Turn any model into an editable, relightable cloud with this neat Maya plugin.
Wednesday, August 20th, 2014
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Animate like Pixar artists with F.A.S.T. for 3ds Max
Clovis Gay's new plugin provides a fast, intuitive rigging workflow inspired by Pixar's Presto software,
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 3.3
Maya crowd simulator adds support for blendshape animaion - as shown in a rather endearing demo video.
Saturday, August 16th, 2014
Cebas announces release date for thinkingParticles 6
3ds Max multiphysics plugin due to ship in September. Update adds soft-body dynamics and fluids.
Friday, August 8th, 2014
Arnold 4.2 and new Houdini and C4D plugins due soon
Performance gains of up to 50% for the core renderer; plugins due out at Siggraph and by the end of this year.
Sunday, August 3rd, 2014
Mix digital colours like paint with MixColors 1.2
Physically accurate $19 Photoshop plugin lets users mix colours as if they were real oils or watercolours.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
RE:Vision Effects releases RE:Flex 5 for After Effects
Morphing and warping plugin gets GPU acceleration. It's OpenCL-based, so you can use most cards.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
e-on ships Ozone 2014
Updated: Atmosphere creation plugin adds physically accurate sunlight. Free PLE edition now available.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
Side Effects unveils Houdini Engine for 3ds Max, Unreal
Unreal Engine plugin being developed in house; 3ds Max version by former Digital Domain TD Hideki Suzuki.
Thursday, July 17th, 2014
CoreCG halves price of MentalCore 1.7 for Maya
Cost of the new version of the mental ray rendering toolkit cut to $99 for a node-locked licence.
Tuesday, July 8th, 2014
Imagination retires Caustic Visualizer for Maya
Rendering plugin killed off alongside R2100 and R2500 raytracing cards. Tech survives as SketchUp add-on.
Monday, July 7th, 2014
Stream facial mocap data from a Kinect live into Unity
Updated plugin for the Faceshift markerless facial capture system offers new real-time workflow.
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2.0
Update to GPU-based renderer adds displacement, per-object motion blur; speeds up hair renders 20 times.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014