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Talented artist Clovis Gay has recently released a video showing his latest research in muscles and skin sliding. You can check out his video on Vimeo.

JokerMartini has recently released 'Random Face ID's' for 3DS Max. This plugin is a modifier that allows users to control the face IDs of an object. Users can set the face IDs based on Smoothing Groups, Objects, Faces, or Elements. For more information on the plugin visit JokerMartini.com.

Knald Technologies has released Knald 1.0, which is an ultra-fast GPU powered solution for generating “bake quality” textures from any 2D source texture. The feature list includes: (more...)

Christoph Bülter and Johannes Becker have recently released 'Sublime 3dsMax'. This plugin allows users to send MAXscript commands directly from the Sublime text editor to 3dsMax. Previously, when developing MAXscript tools in Sublime users would have to switch to 3ds Max and run the scripts manually. You can check out more information on this script on Christoph's website.

For Disney's latest upcoming film 'Frozen', a team of talented people developed a system called Matterhorn. Matterhorn is a simulator that uses math, physics, and a lot of computer power to generate realistic snow in a virtual world. Check out a tech video showing off the snow simulations on YouTube, a related research paper (PDF) and find out more on Disney Insider.

Check out the behind the scenes video for Mad Max "Ethos" E3 trailer. You can watch the video on Aladino Debert's Vimeo channel.

Time Remapper allows users to expand, compress, play backward, or freeze track animation, matrix style. Inspired by After Effects time remapping. This tool connects the playback of animated tracks to parameters on a control object. Time Remapper is included in the latest update of the Animators Tool Kit, the suite of tools for animation. Watch the Time Remapper tutorial video on Vimeo.

The web-based 3D content creation platform developed by the team at Exocortex has been updated with a ton of new features and capabilities. Check the complete list of updates at Exocortex's site. They made a 3D Lamborghini and Desk Lamp available for users to test and play with. Once open click and drag to rotate the scene, or click the blue "Edit" button to start editing the raw scene.

Kamil Malagowski has released Break and Form for 3DS Max. This script allows artists to break a model's polygons into separate pieces and then recreate the object by animating the transforms of each piece. See the script in action on Vimeo.  More details on the script can be found on Kamil's website.

Check out the official trailer for Rio 2, which is being produced by Blue Sky Studios & Twentieth Century Fox Animation. This comedy adventure can be seen on Youtube.