AAA Studio cuts educational price of FurryBall to €99
Students and teachers can now get a copy of the GPU-accelerated Maya renderer for under $130 a year.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
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Prêt-à-3D releases Reality 3 for Poser
Updated plugin taps the unbiased LuxRender engine to boost realism of renders with minimal tweaking.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Artur Leao releases mScrub for 3ds Max
Handy little script lets animators scrub the timeline with their mouse wheel. Costs less than a coffee.
Friday, April 19th, 2013
McNeel & Associates releases Neon
Interactive viewport plugin for Rhino is first third-party tool written with the PowerVR Brazil SDK raytrace toolkit.
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Autodesk opens app store to Maya, 3ds Max
Buy plugins, libraries and training through Autodesk's commission-free Exchange Apps store.
Monday, April 15th, 2013
Xsens releases mocap streaming plugin for Unity
Preview data from its inertial mocap systems directly on a character, rather than importing FBX files.
Friday, April 12th, 2013
Raylight releases XrayCat Survival Toolkit for 3ds Max
Updated: New rigging plugin from the creators of XrayUnwrap and XrayBlendSkin has begun shipping.
Friday, March 29th, 2013
e-on software releases LumenRT 4 Studio
Real-time visualisation tool gets major new animation, lighting and import options. Price up a lot, too.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
Thinkbox Software announces Stoke MX
Drive dense particle simulations using data from lower-count sims from FumeFX or vanilla 3ds Max.
Tuesday, March 19th, 2013
Holomatix releases SprayTrace 1.5
Real-time mental ray viewer for Maya gets new render snapshot system, material and lighting overrides.
Thursday, March 7th, 2013
IKinema ships Action 2.5
Real-time mocap solver for Maya now supports OptiTrack hardware; new, more advanced constraints.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
Thinkbox Software releases Krakatoa MY
New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Motion Boutique releases Newton 2.0 for After Effects
Now shipping: After Effects physics engine gets cool new simulation tools, including basic soft bodies.
Thursday, February 21st, 2013