ZOZO Contact Solver gets Blender add-on
Official Blender add-on client for Contact Solver is out, open source, remote GPU friendly, and already shipping updates like armature deformable colliders.
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HiPhyEngine wants clean sims in Blender
HiPhyEngine lands in Blender with unified rigid, cloth, hair, and soft body sims, plus snow and sand. Windows and Linux only.
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.
MetaTailor adds engine bridges and less FBX fatigue
MetaTailor 2.5 introduces official engine bridges and workflow updates for realtime character clothing pipelines.
Simply Cloth Studio 2.0 rebuilds cloth in Blender
Simply Cloth Studio 2.0 is a full rebuild for Blender with new UI, adaptive wrinkle tools, and faster, more stable cloth simulation.
Marvelous Designer adds indie pricing, quietly
Marvelous Designer introduces a discounted indie licence with defined revenue limits and feature parity.
Poser 14 drops Cloth Room, gains simpler PBR setup
Bondware releases Poser 14 with simplified PBR and environment tools, SuperFly update, and no Cloth Room or macOS edition.
Clothy3D: New Tool for Clothing Auto-Fit, Rigging & Mesh Transfers
TL;DR: Clothy3D is a new free software tool for auto-fitting and rigging clothes across 3D characters, transferring skeletons and skin weights, and exporting via FBX. With a marketplace and tutorials included, it could bridge pipelines between Marvelous Designer, Daz3D, iClone, and Unreal Engine—though still in beta.
Marvelous Designer 2025.1: Draw, Wash, Repeat
Marvelous Designer 2025.1 brings Off-Avatar 3D Pen, Denim Wet Wash, AI Pose Generator, and Softbody for custom rigs.
MetaTailor’s One-Click Dress-Up: Unreal Engine Bridge Plugin Arrives in Public Beta
Hologress launches public beta of MetaTailor Unreal Engine Bridge: enabling one-click MetaHuman and clothing transfer. Windows only. Free tier available.
Fibric: Stitching Curves into Cloth—Procedurally
Fibric introduces a Houdini SOP-based toolset for procedural clothing creation using curves, featuring UV-ready, quad-based geometry and real-time rendering with Karma XPU.
Browser Cloth: Wiggle It Just a Little Bit
Finally, a cloth sim that runs in your browser and doesn’t crash your machine. Click, drag, wiggle—no download, just delightful chaos.
CharMorph 0.4: Open-Source Character Creation Evolves
CharMorph 0.4 enhances Blender's character creation with Rigify support, real-time clothing fitting, and customizable skin and eye colors, all under a user-friendly open-source license.
New Cloth Creation Toolset for Houdini: A First Look
Houdini Artits introduce a new cloth and curves creation toolset basend on the drawing of Curves.
Blender’s new sewing machine: clothes from nothing!
Blender makes it possible once again - or in this case: wearable. With the new plugin, you can now generate clothing as quickly as T-shirts go on sale.
Your own particle system with simulation nodes
The Digital Production logo has been through a lot recently. It was thrown in Houdini with a wet towel and turned to earth in Tyflow. And now it is
set on fire in Blender - where will it end?
New version of the 3D clothing software Marvelous Designer released!
The company CLO Virtual Fashion releases Marvelous Designer 12 - and expands the scope with many convenient functions. A release note.
What can the new Cloth Dynamics in Cinema 4D do?
Motion graphics expert EJ Hassenfratz shows what's behind the new Cloth & Rope Dynamics in C4D. A live recording from Siggraph 2022.
Club culture, techno music and character animation combined with iClone & Character Creator
Music video par excellence: Relative.berlin makes DJ Taube dance and utilises all the new features of iClone!
How does the simulation work with Cinema 4D?
The lecturer with the Maxon nose: Athanasios "Noseman" Pozantzis presented his latest explainer video live at Siggraph - as part of The 3D and Motion Design Show.
FumeFX simulation software available as a free beta!
Version 6 of the VFX software from developer Sitni Sati enters the beta phase. The trick: FumeFX 6 Beta is also free to use for commercial projects up to and including 21 December 2022!
Marvelous Designer 11 released
Just released: the latest version of the 3D garment creation and simulation software with improved retopology and more.
TearKnit FX Brings Procedural Fabric Tearing to Maya
UnPLUG Tools released TearKnit FX 1.0, a Maya tool for creating procedural, physically convincing fabric tears.
Clothify Pro Adds Modifier-Based Cloth Tools
Clothify Pro brings non-destructive real-time cloth shaping and animation to 3ds Max through a stack-compatible modifier.
Pixar Research Refits Garments to Digital Bodies
Pixar’s garment-refitting method alternates relaxation and rebinding optimisation to adapt clothing to different digital body shapes.
SIGGRAPH Course Examines Dynamic Deformables
Theodore Kim and David Eberle discuss dynamic deformable materials, solver design and collision handling in a SIGGRAPH 2020 course.
Dynamo Brings GPU-Accelerated Cloth Dynamics to 3ds Max
Deform Dynamics’ Dynamo plugin uses GPU acceleration to speed up cloth simulation workflows in 3ds Max.
Cloth Deform Adds Interactive Wrinkle Sculpting to 3ds Max
KM-3D’s Cloth Deform plug-in for 3ds Max provides an interactive way to press, pull and sculpt wrinkles into cloth surfaces.
Blender Cloth Brush Gains Boundary Sculpting Tools
Blender’s experimental Cloth Brush added a Boundary Brush with multiple falloff modes and support for repeating sculpted patterns.
PolyCloth Brings Cloth Sculpting Brushes to 3ds Max
PolyCloth added physics-based cloth sculpting to 3ds Max with Shrink, Expand and Smooth brushes.
ZBrush 2021 Previews Cloth Dynamics
ZBrush 2021 previewed cloth simulation, interactive cloth brushes, MicroPoly, FiberMesh dynamics and Dynamic Thickness.
Blender Sculpting: Dynamic Cloth Brush
New sculpting brush for Blender: Pablo Dobarro surprises us with a new practical tool for the open source tool!
Marvelous Designer 9 with GPU Simulation
New preview of the upcoming Marvelous Desinger update: With retopology, GPU simulation and more!
Wild West Creature Creation
"Once Upon a Time in the West" – Imagine this soundtrack playing with this tutorial, hehe.
X-Particles 4 for Cinema 4D available
X-Particles 4 is now available: The particle and VFX system for Cinema 4D with many new features, including OpenVDB support, new Cloth simulations and much more!
Marvelous Designer 7 Released
New update for Marvelous Designer: zips, seams, flattening options, Python support and more in version 7 of the clothing tool.
These are the animago AWARD winners 2017!
The animago trophies were awarded yesterday in Munich's Gasteig. These are the lucky winners.
Preview of Marvelous Designer 7
A new version of Marvelous Designer is around the corner: CLO Virtual Fashion has released a sneak peek of the seventh version of the clothing tool.
Everything is so furry and fluffy here!
Today, General TD Brandon Jarratt from Walt Disney Animation Studios will speak about "The Art and Technology of Zoomania" at the animago conference. For all those at home: Here is an excerpt of the making-of from DP 02:16, for which we were able to interview "Zoomania" producer Clark Spencer.
Conference programme & last call for early bird tickets
So ... our animago birthday party is slowly coming together! Here is an excerpt of the presentations at the animago CONFERENCE: Speakers from Disney, Pixar, ILM, Digital Domain, Platige Image and many other well-known animation and VFX studios will be there.
Disney Calculates the Perfect Drape
With Multigrid, Disney Research is developing a method that makes digital fabrics and their behavior under gravity appear even more realistic. The informational video explains the innovative grid.
Monster Uni
Review: In DP 05 : 2013, Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios brought the prequel "Monsters University" to cinemas. Could the hair and cloth simulation keep up with its predecessor film "Monsters Inc."? Animation is a hairy business!
SIGGRAPH: Hash Animation:Master 12
The US$299 3D program now includes improved cloth simulation
Cloth Extension Announced for 3ds Max 7
Discreet's Cloth Extension for 3ds Max 7 will be free to subscription customers from January and available separately for 595 US dollars.