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Foundry has announced that Hiero Player is now available for free to users of Nuke. Find out more on the Foundry website. 

Ragdoll Dynamis is a plugin for Maya that is designed to enable character animators to work faster and with more realism by giving them access to easily directable real-time physics. Find out more on the Ragdoll Dynamics website. 

Epic Games has announced an update to Reality Capture. (more...)

Chaos has announced the Chaos Cosmos, its library of free assets included with V-Ray, has been updated with over 200 new models of vehicles, humans, and vegetation. Find out more on the Chaos blog. 

Autodesk has announced the release of Maya 2022.1.  New features include: (more...)

Nekki has announced Cascadeur Early Acess version 2. The latest version of its physics powered character animation tool. Features include a new Graph Editor, plus a new integrated Tween Machine function that promises to cuts down the amount of work it takes to create good breakdown poses. Other features include: (more...)

ActionVFX has announced that it now offers a subscription plan, in fact, 12 subscription plans with 6 each for individuals and studios. All plans give unrestricted access to the entire library and prices start at $14.99. All assets can also still be purchased individually. Find out more on the ActionVFX website. 

Former TD and Content Evangelism Lead at Quixel and Epic Games Adnan Chaumette recently launched Polygonflow, a new software development company built on the idea of creating "a new concept around which tools are made, shared and maintained". Their first product called GraphN is now available in beta. (more...)

Epic Games has released a webinar recording focused on MetaSounds, the new audio system for Unreal Engine. Watch it on the Epic Games blog. 

Jon Matthis has released FreeMoCap, a free markerless motion capture software tool that promises to create a "streamlined one-click pipeline for 3D kinematic reconstruction". (more...)