Nekki ships Cascadeur 2022.1
Physics-based animation software gets Constraints system for weapons, plus new Node Editor and Python API for technical artists.
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
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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
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.3
Unusual physics-based animation software gets a new Animation Cycles system for seamlessly looping any character movement.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2021
SideFX releases Houdini 19
Check out the key tools in this big update to the procedural 3D app: from muscles, multiphysics and Pyro simulations to Karma XPU.
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021
Discover how to animate a creature walk cycle in Maya
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the key principles of realistic quadruped walk cycles.
Saturday, August 7th, 2021
Ragdoll Dynamics adds real-time physics to your Maya rigs
Neat new plugin adds realistic dynamics to machines, muscles, cloth and hair in the Maya viewport.
Tuesday, August 3rd, 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
Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.21
Game engine gets new automated secondary animation system, support for PhysX 4.1, updates to the visual programming system.
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Master current workflows in VFX Animation for Television
Create a complete creature shot in Maya with Supergirl animation lead Elaina Scott's new Gnomon tutorial.
Saturday, October 6th, 2018
Neat tool Mush3D lets you sculpt on animation caches
Updated with new product name. Sculpt corrective shapes on Alembic caches, or add cloth or jiggle deformation.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
YcdiVFX releases Physics Tools for Maya
Neat new Maya plugin adds instant believable secondary motion to keyframed character animations.
Friday, February 16th, 2018