AMD has announced a new version of the free, physically accurate GPU renderer Radeon ProRender 3.3 which is available for Maya and Blender users. It now supports fog and HeterogenousRead More
Chaos has released a second update for V-ray 5 for Maya. The update extends USD support with the option to render USD lights and export V-Ray lights to USD. There’sRead More
The Maya 2022 update 2 is now available for download. So what’s new? The update includes a Scaling section that’s been added to the Solidify deformer so you can resizeRead More
Ecotope is a new object scattering tool created inside GraphN, Polygon Flow’s visual programming system for DCC applications. The company describes Ecotope as “the first in a long series ofRead More
As part of the Bifrost Rebel Pack, there is already a trail tool, but this new tool from Bruce Lee has additional features. While the new trail tool builds onRead More
hdRstr, a new add-on from developer Stefan Krake, allows artists to work with tens of thousands of area lights in the viewport of Maya or Houdini. The tool, which isRead More
While viewport 2 adds motion blur to anything that moves under a transform animation, anything under a deformation move came without motion blur. Up until now. A neat little scriptRead More
TopoWrap, from unPLUG Tools, is a new procedural topology transfer tool for Maya. It works on Maya 2016 and higher versions for Windows, Linux, and macOS. TopoWrap offers similar butRead More
Autodesk has shared some highlights from this year’s SIGGRAPH. They include a closer look at WetaM, the new software service from Weta Digital and Autodesk. It integrates Weta’s proprietary toolsRead More
Ragdoll Dynamics 1.0 is a new real-time physics solver for Maya. It’s similar to the native nCloth and nHair solvers, but it works on transforms rather than points. Anything withRead More