KeyFlow Turns Maya Repetitions Into Buttons
Fenix Animator’s KeyFlow puts Maya animation chores into a customizable toolbar, from timing and mirroring to temporary rig controls.
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Animo Sliders Bring Maya Controls to Blender
Ehsan Bayat brings 16 Animo animation sliders to Blender for faster pose, timing and keyframe adjustments.
Animo Packs 500+ Maya Tools Into One Panel
Animo gathers 500+ Maya animation tools into one editor, adds direct reference media, hotkeys and six new sliders. Still beta. Still free.
Spider Walker automates multi-leg animation
Spider Walker turns body motion into procedural multi-leg steps, raycasted surface contacts and bakeable Blender animation.
Official Steam support lands on Unity roadmap
For those who don’t know the tool: Unity is a realtime game engine that ships to desktop and…
280 free automotive Substrate materials for UE 5.7
Epic’s new Automotive Substrate Materials pack on Fab bundles over 280 vehicle-focused Substrate materials plus templates, setup assets, and calibrated maps, targeting consistent results across Lumen and the Path Tracer in Unreal Engine 5.7.3 and later.
PFTrack 2025: Matchmoving gets its groove back
The Pixel Farm’s PFTrack 2025 delivers major lens, tracking, and mesh improvements plus new perpetual licence options.
Mansur Rig 3.0 Goes Free and Open Source Lite
Mansur Rig 3.0 drops activation, goes partially open source, adds Maya 2026 support on Windows, and warns older versions stop working after March 2026.
Painterly Trees for Blender: ShapeScape Studio Blooms
New Blender add-on ShapeScape Studio lets artists grow painterly trees procedurally with NPR shaders, custom meshes, and built-in animation.
INSYDIUM Fused 2025.4: Faster NeXus, New GPU Sims, And a Procedural Animation Toolkit
The release of INSYDIUM Fused 2025.4 introduces a rebuilt NeXus core that accelerates GPU simulation performance while reducing…
Unity’s 2026 Roadmap: CoreCLR, Verified Packages, Fewer Surprises
Unity maps out its 2026 engine roadmap: CoreCLR migration, ECS-GameObject unification, verified packages, and a fresh round of AI-assisted dev tools.
Boris FX Suite Expands with Three Audio DAWs
Boris FX expands its Suite with three full DAWs (Sequoia, Samplitude, and Music Studio) adding professional audio production, mastering, and music creation tools to its postproduction ecosystem.
Free “BranchK” toolkit for Houdini adds hierarchy-deformation features
The free BranchK toolkit for Houdini gives environment artists hierarchical capture and deform tools, download and test now.
Marvelous Designer 2025.2: MetaHumans, Pleats & Keyframes
Marvelous Designer 2025 introduces direct MetaHuman DNA import, pattern-to-trim/accessory conversion, pleat creation and expanded keyframe control.
SLAPSHOT promises AI Camera Tracking “in minutes”
SLAPSHOT has released its AI Camera Tracking tool: what used to take a day or more can now take under ten minutes according to the developer.
No need to water flowers in August: grow them in Houdini instead
FLOPs is a free, KineFX-based HDA toolkit for creating and animating realistic flowers in Houdini, released by Danny Laursen.
Odyssey: Toons on the Unreal Engine Timeline
Odyssey is now free on Fab: 2D storyboarding and vector animation, baked right into Unreal Engine 5.6.
Hair Today, Cards Tomorrow: New 3ds Max Tool for Haircard Workflows
Hair Cards Tool for 3ds Max adds a non-destructive workflow for generating haircards with editing, baking and AO features.
TD Meetup 15: Open Source Pipeline Plex
Plex is an Visual Effects, Animation and Games pipeline that manages critical workflows during production.
TD Meetup 14: GitHub Copilot
Imagine an AI assistant that saves you hours while making your Python code faster, cleaner, and more reliable.
Pulldownit 6 for Maya: Shattering Expectations with New Features
Pulldownit 6 introduces the Edge Fracture Tool, enhanced dynamic long cracks, and improved performance for instanced shapes in Maya.
Friday Fun: Temple Run, selfmade
Virtual production artists, rejoice! Scans Factory has just unleashed a massive free asset pack of over 120 high-resolution 3D scans of ancient Cambodian temples, available on the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
TD Meetup 06: USD for Visual Effects
USD is becoming an important standard file format for visual effects, animation and video game productions. Most of us have heard of USD, but what is it and how to use it in our next production is still a mystery to most.
We Hunt Giants
The short film "We Hunt Giants" takes the viewer into a world in which humans and dinosaurs fight for survival. Action, drama and CGI - without a Hollywood budget in the millions. Here is a brief insight into the making of the film and its visual effects.
Direct modelling: modelling without obstacles
As the saying goes: every drop wears away the stone. Wouldn't it be ideal if there was a shortcut?
