19lights ships Ginger HDR
HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
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Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 1.4
Artist-friendly Maya crowd simulator gains support for mental ray rendering, new instancing tools.
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
e-on software ships Ozone 6
Atmospheric plugin for all major DCC apps gains new cloud-editing tools and improved render speed.
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Cloud services firm Otoy buys Refractive Software
Deal will not change roadmap or licence terms for offline version of Octane Render, says developer.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Next Limit announces RealFlow RenderKit 2.5
Free patch adds new Cinema 4D plugin, plus support for RenderMan volumetrics. Updated: now shipping!
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Exocortex Technologies ships Alembic plugin suite
Make better use of the open-source data-interchange format in 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and more.
Monday, March 5th, 2012
IKinema releases IKinema Action 2 for Maya
Stream motion-capture data directly into Maya for editing and retargeting with the newly rechristened plugin.
Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Pixologic releases free ZBrush 4R3 update
Updated: now shipping, adding lots of cool new tools including the NoiseMaker plugin.
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
xaitment releases xaitMap and xaitControl for Unity
Middleware developer releases its games AI toolsets as inexpensive Unity plugins.
Friday, February 24th, 2012
Get XParticles: XPresso-free particle sims for Cinema 4D
Developers Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor release their versatile alternative to Thinking Particles.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.2 for Maya
Latest update to crowd-simulation system adds support for Linux and the render engine of your choice.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
AGF Multimedia releases DarkCorner for After Effects
GPU-accelerated plugin calculates ambient occlusion from the Z-depth data embedded in your renders.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Evermotion adds instancing to NOX render engine
Latest update to the free unbiased renderer for 3ds Max and Blender rewrites entire geometry engine.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012