Basefount Technology ships Miarmy 1.5 for Maya
Updated with neat new demo video: sub-$1,000 crowd simulator now batch renders jobs much faster.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
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Mootzoid's emPolygonizer4 for Softimage ships
See the particle-meshing plugin melt the Stanford bunny model into a puddle of multicoloured glop.
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Massive Software unveils Massive 5.0
Crowd simulator gets speed boost, 3ds Max plugin. Read the full story on the Immersed in Movies blog.
Monday, August 13th, 2012
e-on software releases LumenRT 3 Review
Easy-to-use SketchUp visualisation tool gets animated plants, advanced materials, 10x boost in speed.
Friday, August 10th, 2012
Golaem ships Golaem Crowd 2.0
Maya crowd-simulation software gets new graphical AI-authoring system; speed boosted 15 times.
Tuesday, August 7th, 2012
Red Giant Software releases Trapcode Mir
Peder Norrby's After Effects plugin creates fast-rendering abstract 3D geometry that reacts to AE's lights.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
Thinkbox Software announces Draft
New plugin for the Deadline render manager automates creation of contact sheets and QuickTimes.
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
Motion Tools 1.0: do motion graphics in Softimage
Gustavo Boehs' free collection of ICE-based tools automates common motion graphics tasks.
Monday, July 30th, 2012
Rich Diamant ships Diamant Modeling Tools for Maya
Updated: Blizzard star's retopology and brush-based modelling plugin now out of alpha and ready to buy.
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
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
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