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Handy little script lets animators scrub the timeline with their mouse wheel. Costs less than a coffee.

Friday, April 19th, 2013

Interactive viewport plugin for Rhino is first third-party tool written with the PowerVR Brazil SDK raytrace toolkit.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

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Monday, April 15th, 2013

Preview data from its inertial mocap systems directly on a character, rather than importing FBX files.

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Updated: New rigging plugin from the creators of XrayUnwrap and XrayBlendSkin has begun shipping.

Friday, March 29th, 2013

Real-time visualisation tool gets major new animation, lighting and import options. Price up a lot, too.

Wednesday, March 20th, 2013

Drive dense particle simulations using data from lower-count sims from FumeFX or vanilla 3ds Max.

Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

Real-time mental ray viewer for Maya gets new render snapshot system, material and lighting overrides.

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

Real-time mocap solver for Maya now supports OptiTrack hardware; new, more advanced constraints.

Monday, February 25th, 2013

New Maya particle renderer produces 'pixel-identical' output to its 3ds Max sibling, runs on laptops.

Friday, February 22nd, 2013

Now shipping: After Effects physics engine gets cool new simulation tools, including basic soft bodies.

Thursday, February 21st, 2013

Vegetation scattering plugin now compatible with V-Ray, Maxwell, Arion, Octane and Thea Render.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013

New plugin integrates Thea Render engine inside Max, including support for Particle Flow and instancing.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2013