Marvelous Designer 2026.1 Rips Seams
Seam ripping, brush pinching, blend-shape animation and camera interchange give Marvelous Designer finer control over cloth and hand-offs.
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Ornatrix 4 Expands C4D Grooming
Warp Roots, procedural hair-card textures, improved clumping and Unreal colour export extend Ornatrix grooming inside Cinema 4D.
Sisir Free Hair Grooming Tool
Free standalone grooming for Windows adds guide styling, procedural controls, masks, DCC bridge scripts and Alembic export.
Real Clay and Digital Ice Cream at Uber Eck
Clay sculptures, photos, Houdini MPM and Redshift made Kayak’s Greek ice cream statues melt on cue. Real dairy was less cooperative.
Free Komodo Rig for Fun
Free Komodo rig for portfolio work, plus paid tiers for commercial pipelines. Big lizard, small invoice, careful license.
Mush3D 3.0 Adds Soft Tissue Tools
Mush3D 3.0 adds pose-trained corrections and tetrahedral soft tissue simulation for artists polishing cached character animation.
KeenTools 2026.1: Nuke 17 and Blender 5.1
New host support, calmer refinements, fewer UV surprises. 2026.1 targets the unglamorous stuff that breaks shots at 2 am.
Maxon ships Cinema 4D 2026.2 update
Cinema 4D 2026.2 brings a clothy viewport brush, a darker sky, and a truckload of bug fixes. Your crash logs may feel lonely.
Marvelous Designer 2026.0 adds 3D Pencil and lacing
Draw patterns on an avatar, auto-route laces, flip to toon materials, and tighten export controls. Marvelous Designer 2026.0 aims at faster iteration.
JangaFX makes its layoff assistance programme permanent
Layoff Assistance is now permanent: eligible laid-off artists can get six months of the Janga tool access to rebuild reels without paying.
Pixel Lab drops free Blood Hit Alembic
Blood Hit is a free pre-simmed Alembic blood hit, built for drag and drop gore beats across lots of 3D apps.
Redshift 2026.3 fixes displacement headaches
Redshift 2026.3 is a stability release focused on texture displacement, Hydra USD updates and host bug fixes.
Storm HydroFX ships water without the node graph
Storm HydroFX 1.0 launches as a standalone GPU FLIP fluid solver for Windows with whitewater, mesh export and annual subscriptions.
3DEqualizer 8.1 Adds Piggyback Camera Solves
3DEqualizer 8.1 introduces piggyback rig solving, a rewritten Blender export script and new import and export options.
KeenTools 2025.3 Brings Blender 5, Character Creator 5 & AE Exports
KeenTools 2025.3 expands host support with Blender 5, Character Creator 5 export from FaceBuilder and Alembic output from GeoTracker for After Effects.
Sharper, Faster, Smokier: FumeFX 7.1 for 3ds Max
FumeFX 7.1 delivers faster warps, Alembic point clouds, and smarter VDB handling in 3ds Max. Less waiting, more burning.
Ornatrix V9 for 3ds Max: Paint, Plait, Perform
Ornatrix V9 brings hair painting, braiding, SIMD viewport speed, Alembic export and modifier tweaks, grooming artists get the full treatment.
Red Poppies, Bears and Open Source!
Polish war drama Red Poppies (Czerwone Maki) brings the Battle of Monte Cassino to the big screen with over 400 VFX shots, 120 of which were crafted by Polish VFX studio Imaginary Pixels. And the team relied on open-source tools?
Sculptron 1.1 Adds Alembic Support and Improved Viewport Selection
Otoy released Sculptron 1.1 with Alembic import and export, image-based alpha support, improved viewport selection and adjustable interface opacity.
PlantCatalog Launched with 60 Species
e-on PlantCatalog launched with 60 adjustable plant species, multiple LODs, UVs, UDIMs and exporters for DCC and realtime work.
Alembic Particles Without X-Particles
A tutorial on how Alembic Particles can be read out in Redshift C4D.
The open libraries of Hollywood
At this year’s FMX there was a talk „Open Source Software in the Motion Picture Industry – An Investigation by the Science and Technology Council of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences”. In a full room David Morin presented the
results of a survey about Open Source libraries in use in the Motion Picture Industry right now, from a survey done with big studios, software vendors, developers and CTOs – including a live Q&A with the FMX audience.
Cinema 4D Release 19: Departure on several fronts
In the latest iteration, Cinema 4D gives us a glimpse into the future. A lot of things are happening behind the scenes, such as work on a new core, i.e. the heart of the software. Elsewhere, changes are more clearly visible, such as the integration of a new GPU-based renderer or the expansion of MoGraph and OpenGL capabilities.
RealFlow 10.1 with New Features
10.1 update for the simulation software released: New solvers for viscous materials, a new Alembic panel and more are in the new RealFlow!
Take a Look Everyone: Cinema 4D Release 18
The new version focuses on several things: MoGraph now with complex fragmentations, new features for BodyPaint 3D, Substance interface and fracturing and a few more things..
CityEngine 2016 Released
In version 2016, the Alembic Exporter has been added as a feature to CityEngine, as has integration of the ArcGIS platform for importing elevation data from the real world.
Marvelous Designer 5.5
New features in the beta version 5.5 of digital clothing-pattern tool Marvelous Designer include History, Merge, Symmetric Sewing and Alembic export.
3ds Max 2016
Important new functions in the 2016 version of Autodesk’s 3ds Max include OpenSubdiv and Alembic support as well as a new template system.
New Alembic Import Shader for Mental Ray
Nvidia has released an updated version of its Alembic Import Shader for the Mental Ray renderer. CG hair in particular benefits from it.
Alembic Reaches Release 1.5
ILM and Sony Picture Imageworks have released Alembic 1.5. New features are intended to improve application-independent scene exchange.
Alembic as a Plug-in for Softimage
There is an Alembic plug-in for Autodesk Softimage – artist Helge Mathee of Exocortex shows how to integrate it.
SIGGRAPH 2010: ILM and Sony Develop Open Animation Format
Industrial Light & Magic and Sony have introduced Alembic, an open-source format for storing animation data of any size across software packages.
