Christoph Kubisch releases Alles Im Fluss for 3ds Max
Updated: Intuitive suite of tools designed to speed up subdivision modelling now available to buy.
Friday, January 24th, 2014
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Free tool of the day: Michał Gamrat's mgNodes for Maya
Control deformations and particles with this CUDA-based tool to scatter and manipulate points on a mesh.
Monday, December 2nd, 2013
See Disney's snow simulation system recreated in Blender
Molecular add-on recreates Frozen's physics demo surprisingly accurately - albeit at much lower resolution.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
nEyeMaker for Maya creates ultra-customisable eyeballs
Lighting artist Luca Fiorentini's free, fully procedural eye features appearance controls galore. Neat.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Sneak peek: Raylight's XrayCat 1.5 for Max
Updated and now shipping: 3ds Max animation toolkit gets new Pose Manager, better joystick controllers.
Friday, September 6th, 2013
Wayne Robson releases three handy free MAXScripts
Wayne's Morph Switcher, Morph Renamer and Nitrous Tools fix common 3ds Max workflow niggles.
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
Animators' Toolkit for 3ds Max "creates cool stuff, faster"
$25 suite of scripts created by two VFX veterans boosts common rigging and animation tasks.
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Molecular add-on brings multiphysics to Blender
Jean-Francois Gallant's new script unifies particle, cloth and fluid sims - and even pasta simulation.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Render_autosave saves Max renders in progress
Take the sting out of crashes with this free script to save and resume long mental ray and V-Ray renders.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013
Artur Leao releases mScrub for 3ds Max
Handy little script lets animators scrub the timeline with their mouse wheel. Costs less than a coffee.
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Run C# programs inside 3ds Max without restarting
Autodesk's Christopher Diggins releases handy tool for running C# apps in Max as if they were scripts.
Tuesday, October 30th, 2012
Export from Blender to Maxwell Render with BtoMW
Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.
Friday, May 25th, 2012
Mario Baldi creates free FiberMesh to Maya script
Another day, another free tool for exporting ZBrush 4R2b hair to the 3D app of your choice for rendering.
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012