Auto Character System 3 aims to redefine rigging in Modo
Now shipping: long-awaited modular rigging add-on creates rigs for characters of all body shapes.
Monday, November 21st, 2022
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Nvidia releases Omniverse Create 2022.1
Big update to the Omniverse scene layout app adds soft-body physics, new character animation toolset.
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Basefount ships Animcraft 2
Unusual app for building reusable animation libraries gets nonlinear motion editing and new facial rigging and animation toolsets.
Saturday, January 15th, 2022
Download the new free edition of Auto Character Setup
Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.
Sunday, December 12th, 2021
OptiTrack ships Motive 3.0
In beta: optical mocap software's new 'Quantum Solver' can track 10 actors simultaneously. See all of its new features and new pricing.
Tuesday, July 13th, 2021
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
SideFX ships Houdini 18.5
Big update to the procedural 3D software adds KineFX character rigging toolset; updates to Solaris, Karma and the simulation tools.
Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
Nukeygara releases Akeytsu 2020.2
Major update to the character animation app adds support for retargeting and camera animation.
Thursday, October 1st, 2020
Crytek posts 2019-2020 CryEngine roadmap
CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Reallusion previews Unreal iClone Live Link
New plugin will let users stream animation from iClone to Unreal Engine for rendering in real time.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2019
Reallusion launches Motion Live for iClone
Updated: Nifty plugin lets users mix data from multiple mocap systems - and now iPhone X facial tracking.
Sunday, August 12th, 2018
Miquel Campos releases mGear 2.5 for Maya
Free Maya rigging framework gets new RBF Manager and updated Simple Rig auto-rigging system.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018