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
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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
Videos: see cebas's thinkingParticles 5 in action
New teasers of the latest update to the 3ds Max particle tool show Bullet physics... and the new car simulator.
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012
CloakWorks releases Shroud for Unity plugin
Cloth simulation system used on RIFT and Hitman: Absolution now available to indie Unity developers.
Thursday, June 21st, 2012
GenArts ships particleIllusion for Nuke
Fast-rendering OpenGL-based 2D particle tool now available to users of Nuke and Sony Vegas software.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
Get NKS5: a free natural media toolkit for Photoshop
Do (some of) the things you used to do in Painter inside Photoshop with Nathaniel Reeves' cool free add-on.
Friday, June 15th, 2012
Pixar to slash price of RenderMan Studio
Version 4.0 to be merged with RenderMan for Maya, forming a single $1,300 embedded renderer.
Friday, June 15th, 2012