For anyone still nursing the loss of Modo, Yoshiaki Tazaki—a former Foundry software engineer with a decade of hands-on Modo experience—has released YT-Tools, a Blender add-on designed to faithfully re-create much of the modeling workflow that made Modo beloved among artists. It’s a productivity-focused toolkit that transfers muscle memory from Modo into Blender without requiring the user to completely retrain their approach.

The add-on requires Blender 4.0 or later and runs on both Windows and macOS, though Linux users may need to experiment, as the platform hasn’t been officially tested. It’s priced at 20 USD, making it a relatively small investment for artists looking to streamline their modeling work.

What YT-Tools Changes in Blender

Rather than reinvent Blender’s wheel, YT-Tools layers on a series of contextual and Modo-inspired operations. Selection behaviour is overhauled to allow fluid transitions between vertices, edges, and faces, with double-click loops, boundary detection, and a history-aware loop selection system. Selections can be stored and recalled independently of the undo stack, meaning an artist can return to a complex selection at any time without having to retrace their steps.

Slicing tools mirror Modo’s interactivity, enabling loop or polygon cuts with curvature-sensitive control and handle-based visual feedback. Merging can be done with symmetry awareness, and deletions respond intelligently to whether the target is a vertex, edge, or face.

After working with MODO for over 17 years, when I switched to Blender just over a year ago, what I missed most were its fantastic Falloffs…

But thanks to the new add-on from the great Taz-San, that's no longer an issue: FALLOFFS AND MUCH MORE!https://t.co/OrY1ILE0z0 pic.twitter.com/bMavGh0pYF

— Cristóbal Vila (@cristobalvila) August 12, 2025

The Return of Falloffs

Transformation is where the Modo DNA is most obvious. Linear and radial falloffs make it possible to apply movement, scaling, or rotation with gradual influence across a mesh, a feature long cited by Modo veterans as indispensable. The same falloff logic also drives a weight-painting mode that assigns vertex weights based on distance, useful for rigging and deformation workflows.

Workflow Support Features

Supporting these core tools are a suite of interface refinements: the ability to toggle viewport overlays, an action center that automatically sets pivot and orientation based on the active selection, a temporary workplane for precise alignment, a statistics panel for filtering by mesh attributes, and on-screen transform readouts for live feedback.

YT-Tools is available now via Gumroad for 20 USD. Installation is straightforward, and the download includes both English and Japanese documentation. For artists unwilling to give up the efficiency of Modo’s modeling environment, this add-on offers a convincing, Blender-native alternative.

Foundry Announces Modo’s Retirement: A Final Version Before End-of-Life

Foundry Offers 10-Year Free License for Modo: A Farewell Gift for Loyal Users

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Foundry has announced the end of life (EOL) for its 3D modeling software Modo, with license sales officially ending on December 31, 2024. But there’s a (very small) silver lining for long-term users: Foundry is offering a special 10-year free license to those holding perpetual licenses, extending Modo’s functionality well into the next decade. This move provides a cushion for Modo fans to maintain their familiar workflow while preparing for a longer-term migration.

How the 10-Year License Works

Perpetual license holders will be eligible for this unique 10-year extension, allowing access to Modo at no additional cost. For Modo users accustomed to its versatile 3D sculpting and animation features, this license extension may help maintain continuity, especially in studios that rely on established workflows and software compatibility. Active customers will continue to receive support until the end of their current contract. There will also be docs, learning content and support knowledge base available until November 2025.  Although no new features will be introduced, these updates aim to address minor bug fixes and compatibility issues to maintain stability. This additional support will ensure that users on the 10-year license can work with Modo in its current form with minimal disruptions during this adjustment phase.

Assessing Your Next Steps

For 3D artists and studios reliant on Modo’s specific capabilities, the free license buys crucial time to assess alternative tools in sculpting, rendering, and 3D modeling. Foundry’s extended license and migration support help to soften the impact of Modo’s EOL, ensuring that professionals can plan without immediate software shifts. For more details on the 10-year license and Modo’s EOL transition, see Foundry’s official announcement.

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Foundry has confirmed it will cease development of its 3D modeling tool, Modo, with Modo 17.1 serving as the final release. The decision redirects resources to Foundry’s core products, but leaves Modo’s dedicated user base facing an uncertain future. With no further updates or patches planned, Modo may become increasingly incompatible with future operating systems, making it a short-term solution at best.

Current users will receive support until their contracts expire, and an optional 10-year license extension is available to prolong Modo’s use. However, Foundry urges users to begin migrating to other tools, as the software will no longer be patched for compatibility with new technology.

Modo’s community resources are also on the clock. Downloads, documentation, and learning materials will remain available only until November 2025, while forums will close by December 2024. For Modo artists, it’s time to prepare for a transition, as Modo’s end-of-life nears.

More details are available on Foundry’s Modo support page.

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The update includes numerous new functions that make your 3D modelling easier and more effective.

Planar decals: add complex details with ease

With the planar decal function in Modo 16.1, images can be placed on 3D models without having to edit the UVs. This makes it easy to add complex details. With the Planar Decal Mesh Op function, presets of planar decals can be applied to the model.

Seam Decals: Build seamless details

With Seam Decals, curves can be drawn on a surface to create seamless details that simulate complex models. This function is particularly suitable for hard surface models that contain many panels and nunnies. The Seam Decal MeshOp function was inspired by video games.

Surface Probes: Simple rendering of decals

With Surface Probes, you can project decals onto a surface and have them automatically rendered on the receiving surface. This allows you to get to the end product faster and automatically eliminate all floating decals.

Mesh Paint: Simple placement of meshes

The improved Mesh Paint feature in Modo 16.1 allows users to place meshes on another mesh surface. The new Edit Mode feature in Mesh Paint Replica makes placing and aligning objects on existing meshes a breeze.

Triplanar Projection: Add materials without UVs

The Triplanar texturing feature in Modo 16.1 allows users to add materials to a surface without UVs. Textures are projected onto the surface from different angles and overlap, with the triplanar texturing feature creating a uniform texture map.

Background Constraint: Effective retopologising

With the new background constraint feature in Modo 16.1, users can now add a target item to effectively utilise the background constraints. This allows artists to retopologise only a small part of the scene and work better in context.

Improved real-time visualisation in the Advanced Viewport

The quality of the Advanced Viewport in Modo 16.1 has been significantly improved, especially the transparency quality. With the higher performance of the Advanced Viewport, users can achieve better real-time visualisation of transparency.

Click here for the complete release notes

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In nuce: The Foundry releases Modo 16.0, the latest version of the modelling, animation and rendering software. Some of the most interesting new features include a new conditional loop tool for smart edge loop selection, a new wrap effector, new blending modes in the shader tree, background procedural texture baking, and input commands for repetitive tasks. Also: The NPR 2 Kit, a tool package for non-photorealistic rendering, is now available free of charge for Modo licence holders!

Two releases instead of three: The release of Modo 16.0 will be followed by another release in the 16 release series. This second release is scheduled for later this year. This means that only two versions of Modo will now be released annually instead of the usual three versions per year. According to The Foundry, the features built into each released Modo version will be of a higher quality than before – thanks to the longer development times between releases. If you want to get a taste of Modo 16.1, you should take a look at First Modo Roadmap: a path to transparency – there you can already get an idea of the features planned for Modo 16.1.

The features of Modo 16.0: Here are some of the most exciting features of the new Modo version:

• Direct modelling: New conditional loop tool – you can use this to select parts of an edge loop instead of selecting the entire loop straight away

Modo 16.0 | Make Smarter Selections with the Conditional Loop Tool

• Bridge, Edge Subdivide and Ruler Utility: Are now also available as MeshOps for procedural modelling – instead of being selectable within the Direct Modelling Toolset as before.
• MeshFusion: Has been given an automatic system for the variable strip width (in the original: Strip Width System). The advantages of this should be: more influence over the shape of the edge stripes. Cases in which the mesh cannot be drawn should therefore occur less frequently.
• Shader tree: Now contains columns that show the blend mode and opacity of a layer. Also added to the shader tree: Symbols that characterise the functions of a group.
• Baking of procedural textures: Is now handled in the background via the texture cache system.
• Auto Set Layers: Assigns effects to image maps based on file names – the whole process takes place within materials.
• New Wrap Effector: The Foundry describes the functionality of this as a combination of wrap and lattice deformers. In addition, the new wrap effector should produce smoother results than were previously possible with existing wrap-influence deformers. You can read about how the wrap deformer works in detail at foundry.com .

Modo 16.0 | Produce Faster and More Controllable Deformations with the Wrap Effector

• Input commands for repetitive tasks: Allows you to invoke commands based on: the current selection mode and the number of selected components.

Modo 16.0 | Refine Custom Workflows with Conditional Commands

• NPR 2 Kit: Now available free of charge for Modo 16 licence holders. NPR 2 Kit is a tool package for non-photorealistic rendering that was previously priced at $199

Click further: All further information about Modo 16.0 can be found on foundry.com, or on the corresponding release note. The video below provides an overview of all the new features. You can find many more click-worthy videos about Modo 16.0 on Foundry’s YouTube channel.

Modo 16.0 – Features Overview

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The big Foundry Live event in the summer edition is coming up: An online programme will start for you next week. In addition to lots of news about Nuke 12.2, a number of VFX professors, experts, artists and devs will be present to inform you about various areas of the industry – with a focus on Foundry Tools, of course. You must register for the individual events in advance free of charge.

What you can expect at Foundry Live

Eudation, Lookdev, Nuke and Modo – you can register for the following online sessions focussing on these topics.(Click on the title to register)

Nuke 12.2 release (21 July)

The next version of the compositing tool is just around the corner: After the last 12.0 and Nuke 12.1 release, it will continue with some useful features. Updates for the entire Nuke family are expected, from support for new 2D and 3D formats to the new SyncReview functions in Nuke Studio, Hiero and HieroPlayer.

Education Summit (16 July)

From the classroom to the studio: VFX professors and industry experts will introduce Foundry’s Education Collective and impart important know-how. You will learn concepts to prepare you for your first job.

Look Development & Lighting (20 July)

What about Mari and Katana? – This session is all about look development and lighting of the present and future. Some experts will show you practical workflows, tips and tricks. Among others, Nathan Rusch(Senior Developer, Luma Pictures), Cristian Camraoschi(CG Supervisor, Mr X) and Jens Kafitz(Texture Artist and Mari Extension Pack Dev) will be there.

Modelling for VFX with Modo (23 July)

In the last session Roo MacNeill will give an overview of how the VFX world has changed. He will highlight modern requirements and technologies and discuss his personal journey to becoming a VFX mentor and modeller at Framestore.

Further information: To the Foundry Live / Virutal Events website

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With the fresh 12.0 update for Foundry’s DCC software, Modo receives many improvements to the integrated modelling tools, UV improvements, new interface & viewport updates, as well as Python scripts and export options. The announced VR features will only appear in later releases.

Modelling Features

In addition to new “randomise” functions for the jitter tool (modelling & UV), Mesh Paint now has three new modes: Linear, Radial and Array and also offers the possibility to use duplicated and instanced geometry. Selected objects from the Preset Browser can now also be randomised using a “Randomizer”.

Surface Strips is a brand new tool for MeshFusion. You can use it to convert the topology at the intersection of two Boolean meshes into quads or use Surface Strips as a Boolean operation that creates open bodies with quad edges.

Foundry has also added new mesh operators for the procedural modelling introduced in Modo 10. These include a Triangulate MeshOp for non-destructive export, the ability to use duplicated geometry as input for Merge Mesh, a new Falloff operator and more.

UV Tools

With the optimisation of the user interface, new UV Gaps function and revision of UV Align, Foundry has also added small improvements to the UV workflow. Multiple UVs can now be adjusted more easily at the same time.

Rendering & Shading

You can use the new Frame Range Channel to determine which frames of an animation should be rendered. In addition to support for the new glTF Material Shader, Modo now also offers a drop-down menu for shading models with PBR and Unlit settings.

Other new features

The viewport now includes a Topology preset to get quick access to the Retopo tools without having to switch to the Topolgy layout. Foundry has also added a selection of the Python Hatchet Collection to Modo, including PolyScale Offset, Polygon Flip, Flatten Ngon, Weight Map Slicer and more. You can read more about the Hatchet Collection here and in the release notes. Support for Gltf 2.0 has also been added to the export features – models can now be placed and shared in the Facebook newsfeed using drag & drop.

A complete update list can be found in the release notes.

Compatibility & Price

Modo is currently priced at €1460 for a permanent licence including one year of updates, subscription models cost €486 per year – with Maconcept’s Easter discount. If you are still a student, you can take a look at the cheaper & commercially usable Production Collective. This includes Nuke, CaraVR, Modo and Mari for €188 per year. Without the discounts, Modo permanent with one year maintenance comes to €1,619 plus VAT and Modo Subscription costs €539 plus VAT.

Modo 12.0 is compatible with…

• Mac OS 10.10.x, 10.11.x, and 10.12.x (64-bit)
• Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 (64-bit)
• Linux 64-bit (CentOS/RHEL 7 )

For more information: To the Foundry website

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This year, the jury selected 5 nominated entries in each of 9 animago categories. They include entries from Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Great Britain, France, Greece, Moldova, Belgium, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany.

Best Character

“Anna” by Alexia Rubod, Antoine Poyard, Jordann Jacobé, Alexis Choquard, Sophie Bracmard and Yunhan Liu from MOPA University, formerly Supinfocom, from France.

“Border” by Reinout Swinnen and Bram Van Rompaey(Plan 78) from Belgium, produced by S.O.I.L., sound by Senstudio. The film was created with Maya, Modo, After Effects and Premiere.

“Escargore” by Oliver Hilbert/MediaDesign Hochschule from New Zealand: The funny snails were created by the student team using ZBrush, Maya, Houdini and Nuke. They were rendered with V-Ray.

“My Dear Gnome” by Emmanuelle Leleu, Julien Hazebroucq and Chez Eddy from France – the team brought the elegant deer and the stiff garden gnome to life using Maya and Avid Media Composer.

“The Mechanical Waltz” was submitted by Julien Dykmans and William Thomas from France. The music was composed by Amaury Bernier and the film was created with Maya and Nuke.

Best short film

“Bloody Sunday” is an animated film noir from Poland by Studio Produkcyjne Orka. Many tools were used for the film: After Effects, Fusion, Flame, 3ds Max and Maya.

Till Nowak has already won the animago once before with “The Centrifuge Brain Project”. This year he is taking part with “Dissonance” – and you should recognise the main actor: He was also the professor in the Centrifuge film. The film was edited with 3ds Max and After Effects, produced with Nowak’s company Framebox and Detailfilm is managing the festival exploitation of the film.

“Knights Quest” comes from Studio Red Star 3D and was distributed by nWave Pictures. The short film was created with Blender, Modo and Softimage as well as Premiere and Vegas.

A nun on a holy mission and a museum guard in distress: “None of That” was submitted by Isabela Littger, Anna Hinds Paddock, and Kriti Kaur from Ringling College of Art and Design in the USA; the team created the film using ZBrush, Maya, Mudbox, Renderman, After Effects and Nuke.

This film warms the hearts of nature lovers: “Shift” by Cecilia Pugliesi and Yijun Liu from the MFA Computer Art Department of the School of Visual Arts in the USA. The student team realised it using Maya, among other things.

Best Newcomer Production

“Into the Void” as a CG version by Maxime Helier, Guilherme Pereira, Sophie Loubiere, Carla Gandolfi and Marion Chopin. The psychedelic short film “Ataraxya” (from the Greek for “imperturbability”) comes from France from Rubika High School.

“Canned” also comes from Ringling College in the USA. The film is a mixture of 3D animation and painting and was created by the student team Ivan Joy, Nathaniel Hatton and Tanya Zamon using ZBrush, Maya, Deep Paint and Renderman.

This is what “Thelma and Louis” could look like in their retirement years: “Escarface” was created by the student team Pierre Plouzeau, Eva Navaux, Burcu Sankur, Vincent Meunier, Lionel Arnold and Dario Sabato from Supinfocom Valenncines in France using 3ds Max and Nuke.

Tough subject aesthetically realised: “Les Liens de sang” (Blood Ties)” by Manon Lazzari, Sophie Kavouridis, Marion Louw, Thomas Ricquier and Simon Pannetrat, students at the Ecole Georges Meliès in Orly/France, created with ZBrush, Maya, After Effects and Nuke.

In the next issue of DP, which will be published on 28 August, we will include a making-of for this article: “Natural Attraction” is Marc Zimmermann’s diploma film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. The film is completely CG and was created using Cinema 4D and After Effects.

Best Postproduction

Trixter from Munich gave us an in-depth interview on “The Avengers: Age of Ultron” for DP 04 : 2015. The team realised the Ultron MK1 and the visual effects of the party fight.

Scanline VFX from Munich is in this category with the VFX work on “Big Game”. The Samuel L. Jackson film was released in the cinema in June. Here is a breakdown scene from the film of an Air Force One crash.

“Crossbones” is an NBC adventure series from the USA, the VFX were provided by Important Looking Pirates from Sweden.

The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg was nominated with “Jagon”; the VFX work was realised by the student team on behalf of SWR with Maya and Houdini.

VFX work from Amsterdam by PostPanic, created with the support of Glassworks . The 15-minute trailer for “Sundays” was completed with Kickstarter money and many volunteer artist helpers from all over the world. You will find a detailed making-of of the project in an upcoming issue of DP. A Hollywood-financed feature film is in the making.

Best advertising production

Liga 01 Computerfilm submitted the “BMW M3M4 Carbon Fibre” commercial. The portrait of the studio with locations in Munich and Hamburg can be found in DP 01 : 2015.

Disney/Pixar meets advertising: “Find the One” is no romantic romanticisation; the ladies in this Triumph commercial pursue very pragmatic goals – but still sing. The commercial was realised by Boutiqu AG from Switzerland in collaboration with Stories AG and Chez Eddy.

We’d be surprised if this dance advert didn’t make our readers’ toes itch a little. Glassworks from London created the “Moves You” advert for Lycra.

And PostPanic from the Netherlands is back at animago 2015 with the TNT commercial “The People Network”.

Crazy – that’s the only word that aptly describes this “Supermoine Holypop” advert. Supamonks Studio from Paris created the wild animation mess for the Holypop soda drink.

Best Trailer/Opener

Ubisoft’s “Assassin’s Creed” is once again among the nominees this year with a cinematic – for the “Syndicate” part. The game trailer was realised by the Hungarian team from Digic Pictures, which also has its headquarters in Budapest.

In the “Run Boy Run – Dying Light Trailer”, a young man fights zombies – to the song of the same name by Woodkid. The game trailer was realised by Axis Animation on behalf of the Polish game developer Techland:

in 2013, Unit Image from France won an animago AWARD with the E3 trailer for the Ubisoft game “The Crew”; the launch trailer was nominated this year.

Games always have a lot of cinematics, trailers and teasers that are realised by CG studios on behalf of the game developers. Last year, Platige Image was nominated with the official launch trailer for “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt” from game developer CD Project RED, this year Digic Pictures was able to convince the jury with the launch cinematic for the game. The trailer is appropriately titled “A Night to remember”:

The “Total War: Warhammer” tabletop game from Games Workshop is eagerly awaited by fans, and publisher Sega plans to release it in 2016. The responsible game development studio is Creative Assembly. The announcement cinematic trailer has already been provided by Platige Image.

Best Visualisation

And once again Platige Image (nobody can beat quality): The Polish team realised the image film “Ambition” for the European Space Agency (ESA ) to draw attention to the Rosetta mission and bring the topic closer to the general non-space scientist.

When it comes to visualisation, sometimes unpleasant topics have to be explained; the spot “Be smart, be sexy” by PlusOne from the Netherlands is aimed at young people and provides information about sexually transmitted diseases.

“EPA Air Pollution” addresses air pollution and asks important questions about the problem. The visualisation clip was produced by The Magnificent Itch from Australia.

https://vimeo.com/127797118

Uli Henrik Streckenbach has already won the animago AWARD several times and did so again this year with his team Robert Pohle, Ronny Schmidt, Maurice Mersinger and Jochen Mader from Uhsless. His visualisation on the subject of “organ donation” called “Young Heroes” is one of the nominees:

Architectural visualisation with finesse: “The Edge” was also submitted by PlusOne and was rewarded with a second nomination.

Special prize from the jury

Films and contributions that do not really fit into one of the previous categories or have missed out on entry, but have nevertheless deeply impressed the jury, will be honoured in this category and given the chance to win an animago Trophy.

Among them is “A Single Life” by Job, Joris & Marieke, for which we have a making-of in the upcoming DP issue 06 : 2015. The short film from the Netherlands was nominated for an Oscar this year and was realised with Cinema 4D.

Also included is the short film “Auster” by Dominik Stockhausen and Carl Krause from the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg – funny, concise and originally realised. The trailer was created for the International Festival of Animated Film 2015 in Stuttgart.

https://vimeo.com/128872658

The Blender Foundation has kicked off the first ever animated open source feature film with the release of the first 10-minute short film on “Cosmos Laundromat”. The film will be created with the help of the Blender community. All further information about the project here.

Simpals Animation Studio from Moldova is nominated with “Dji. Death Sails” nominated. The team has released a series of funny films featuring the Death character, created with Maya, V-Ray and After Effects.

Please fasten your seatbelts: “Kung Fury” takes flight. The viral trash wonder, which was realised with the help of crowdfunding and in which David Hasselhoff, among others, plays a key role, also made the animago jury laugh and was able to convince them with a special kind of design. The effects were created by Fido from Sweden; the film was directed by David Sandberg, who also plays the lead role.

Best Still

Last but not least, the best CG artworks without movement in the image. We need the help of our readers to determine the winner: Please vote here on Facebook which still is your favourite this year!

“Closed” by Aris Michailidis from Greece

“Hominium Historia” by Thomas Vournazos from Slashcube in Switzerland

“Raspberry Madness” by Tuna Unalan from the United States

“On the Tramp” by Manuel Peter from Germany

“Topview” by Jürgen Stein Fotodesign from Germany

All further information about the animago AWARD & CONFERENCE here. Tickets can be booked here, currently there are still discounted early bird tickets available!

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Chaos Group and The Foundry have worked well together and present V-Ray for Modo, Nuke and Katana. Information on this will be available at Siggraph tomorrow: At the Foundry booth 601 (right next to the Chaos Group), the heads of both companies will officially announce the whole thing once again (on Wednesday, 13 August, at 10 a.m. local time) and the new functions will be explained as part of the Modo/Mari User Group, which will also meet on Wednesday in the Georgia Ballroom at the Hyatt Regency Hotel (7 to 8 p.m.).

V-Ray for Modo and Nuke are in public beta, V-Ray for Katana is already available – for more information, please contact the Chaos Group at vfx@chaosgroup.com.

V-Ray for Nuke

V-Ray for Modo

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With Modo, The Foundry now has enough software to put together a Creative Suite – and they have now done so. Similar to the suites from Adobe or Autodesk, the Foundry products are now available in two variants “as a package” – although not declared as a suite, but as a “Collective”

These two versions are: The “Production Collective” with NukeX, Modo, Mari and Hiero, which you can get node-locked or as a floating licence for 7,200 euros – excluding VAT. The smaller version is the “Creation Collective”, which comes with Modo, Mari and the Hiero Player and is available for 1,860 euros (according to The Foundry).

The other circumstances are that you get all upgrades and support by phone or email for one year. Anyone who already has individual licences from the Collectives should contact The Foundry directly for a quote. And here is another video from The Foundry, in which the Collectives are explained again with illustrated partially textured primitives.

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