Digital Frontier ships free 3ds Max Alembic importer
Import files in the new industry-standard interchange format into 3ds Max, complete with animation.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
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Coolorus releases colour wheel for Adobe tools
Put a Painter-style colour wheel inside Flash or Photoshop with this inexpensive little add-on.
Tuesday, October 16th, 2012
Get Genesis figures into Poser with DSON Importer
Export DAZ Studio 4's next-gen figures to Poser with this (temporarily) free new plugin.
Saturday, October 13th, 2012
Get Insert MeshMaster and MatCap Baker for ZBrush
Speed up brush and MatCap creation with these free plugins created by Ubisoft's Joseph Drust.
Friday, October 12th, 2012
Atangeo ships polygon Cruncher plugin for Unity
New games mesh-decimation tool generates LODs preserving your normals and texture co-ordinates.
Thursday, October 11th, 2012
Marius Silaghi releases TurboSmooth Pro for Max
Handy new plugin offers more controllable semi-sharp creases, based on Pixar's subdivision tech.
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Artixels announces Escher plugin collection for Nuke
Updated: 'album' of lighting plugins provides production-ready shortcuts for complex tasks. Beta out now.
Saturday, September 29th, 2012
Di-O-Matic ships Voice-O-Matic (Maya Edition) 2.0
Automated lip-sync plugin gets expanded language support, new quality presets, and new Pro edition.
Thursday, August 30th, 2012
cebas releases demo of thinkingParticles 5
Try the new Bullet physics and soft-body solvers in the 3ds Max plugin with this non-time-limited trial.
Monday, August 27th, 2012
Imagination unveils Caustic Visualizer for Maya
New plugin based on the PowerVR Brazil SDK provides interactive raytraced previews inside Maya.
Thursday, August 16th, 2012
Goodmotion releases GM FoldLayers for After Effects
Free beta of new plugin lets users arrange AE layers in foldable groups, eliminating precomps
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Autodesk releases preview of augmented reality plugin
It's for Showcase, not 3ds Max or Maya, but it's still a work in progress, so anything could yet happen.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
Anzovin Studio demos new Maya breakdown tool
Upcoming tool creates breakdowns based on quaternions, not Euler angles, avoiding gimbal lock.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012