Chris Zurbrigg releases Blue Pencil for Maya
New plugin lets you draw over the 3D viewport to rough out animation, sketch layouts or mark up shots.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
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Preview: thinkingParticles 6 and thinkingParticles GE
3ds Max particle system to gain fluid and cloth sim tools, plus new edition for Unity and Unreal game engines.
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases Jiggle for 3ds Max
New plugin simulates muscle and skin sliding without complex rigs; results in unnerving demo video.
Tuesday, July 24th, 2012
Eric 'Mootzoid' Mootz releases emReader for modo
Import RealFlow, Softimage or Maya animations for rendering with the cult Softimage coder's first modo plugin.
Thursday, July 19th, 2012
New Hair Factory plugin gets Blender hair into Unity
Convert particle-based Blender hair to an FBX file to stamp out low-poly character baldness.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Holomatix ships SprayTrace mental ray viewer for Maya
Updated: new plugin provides interactive preview of a mental ray scene - now with Mac OS X support.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Video Copilot releases Element 3D for After Effects
'Greatest After Effects plugin known to mankind' renders 3D models in real time, with motion blur and DoF.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Watch Evolution: two minutes of Softimage particle magic
It's officially a demo for Mootzoid's emFlock2 version 2.3 flocking tool, but it's also beautiful eye candy.
Monday, July 9th, 2012
ArtVPS adds cloud rendering to Shaderlight 2.2
Send jobs to the cloud directly from within SketchUp with the plugin's new one-click online rendering system.
Friday, July 6th, 2012
Refractive Software releases OctaneRender for Maya
New plugin embeds the GPU-accelerated physically based renderer directly within Maya.
Thursday, July 5th, 2012
Golaem releases Golaem Crowd 1.5
Crowd simulator now shows your actors directly within the Maya render window, rather than baking geometry.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
cebas releases thinkingParticles 5
Update to the 3ds Max particle tool adds Bullet physics, car simulation and soft bodies. See them all here.
Friday, June 29th, 2012
AR-media turns 3D models into augmented realities
Use this inexpensive plugin to create AR content in 3ds Max or SketchUp - and now Maya and Cinema 4D.
Thursday, June 28th, 2012