Autodesk Labs unveils Project Pinocchio
Work-in-progress system creates fully rigged 3D characters in your browser for export in FBX format.
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
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Mirye Software unveils Shade 3D for Unity
New free edition of the veteran 3D modelling and animation package targets indie game developers.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
OC3 Entertainment releases FaceFX 2013
Leading automated facial animation tool gets new pricing structure, new FBX pipeline for Unity and Blender.
Thursday, September 20th, 2012
Fabric Engine launches Creation Platform
See cool tools built with the high-performance app development framework running inside Maya.
Wednesday, August 1st, 2012
New Hair Factory plugin gets Blender hair into Unity
Convert particle-based Blender hair to an FBX file to stamp out low-poly character baldness.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
RigMesh: putting the fun back into rigging
Sketch the outline of a character and have this nifty automatic rigging tool create a mesh and IK skeleton.
Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Martin Wengenmayer releases Cheetah3D 6.0
Small but powerful Mac-only 3D app gains Bullet physics, improved FBX SDK and support for 16-bit textures.
Monday, April 16th, 2012
3ds Max 2013 gets built-in animation store
Browse, edit and buy thousands of motion clips from within 3ds Max via the new Mixamo-powered service.
Friday, April 13th, 2012
Siggraph 2011: Luxion to preview KeyShot 3
High-performance stills renderer gets into movies with easy-to-use new technical animation toolset.
Monday, August 1st, 2011