Tyson presented Tyflow 1.012 a HUGE new update. Includes a complete suite of tools to create all types of terrains. Its comparable to Gaea and World Machine. Includes more than 20 modifiers to archive these tasks. It features CUDA-accelerated erosion, deformation and shallow-water solvers, complex layer-based color/texture generation, unlimited tile/color/mask […]

The popular simulation tool from Chaos has received an update. Most important features are the ability to add any type of deformers over your volumes or particles, support for realtime interaction with Vray cpu interactive rendering, Fog absorption color and fog phase, function. And in 3ds Max we received an […]

Thinkbox Open sourced all their 3ds Max plugins. This means anybody can modify, improve, or port to newer versions krakatoa, Frost, Genome, Xmesh or stoke. Krakatoa: https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-krakatoa https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-krakatoa-mx XMesh: https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-xmesh https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-xmesh-mx Frost: https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-frost https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-frost-mx Stoke: https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-stoke https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-stoke-mx Shared Thinkbox Repositories: https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-library https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-my-library https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-cm-library https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-node-view https://github.com/aws/thinkbox-magma All this links has been […]

All courses in Effective Technical Directors are now free. This includes multiple of my courses for thinking Particles. The courses are: Thinking Particles Zero to Hero. In this One I will consider you dont know any thinking Particles, we will go from the most basic to some advance projects using […]

Chaos presented what will come with Corona 10. On a short video they showcase not everything, but some of the improvements that will come to the popular renderer. Here a short list of what you can see on the video:- We have coloration for clouds, ideal if you are on […]

Cebas Technologies presented MaxMp4. A native mp4 exporter for 3ds Max. The plugin cost 20$. It acts as a standard 3ds Max file exporter plugin and can be found in the Save As dialog of 3ds Max. When the user selects MP4 as the output format, they can use the […]

Clement Plantec released “Send to 3dsMax”. Its an extension for Visual Studio from Microsoft, to send maxscripts and python code directly to 3dsmax. Its free and its still in beta. you can send suggestions and/or bugs to Clement. Ideal for all heavy programmers using max!

Tyflow has been a huge boost in productivity for 3ds Max artists. Its free version alone offers a lot of cool new possibilities, not only for motion graphics and visual effects, but also for modeling and other tasks. Tyflow its very easy to learn, however the beginnings can be a […]

Autodesk in collaboration with The rockies, announced a new competition aimed to students and self taught artists. The competition is called RIG.B You can participate in 3 different categories (animation, texturing, FX). With 3 workstation laptops from Boxx, Adobe subscriptions, Wacoms and more prices from Autodesk! To participate, download the […]

Insydium is a popular third party developer for cinema4d. Creators of Xparticles and the newer Nexus. A GPU accelerated particle and simulation system. They announce a new version, with even more GPU capabilities, and on a tweet they announce they are porting the system to 3ds Max, Maya, and blender […]

We have a new 3dsmax Update! the last of the year. This time we got a new OSL organic noise map, to create more interesting patterns and comes with 28 presets ready to use. Changsoo Eun created a video to display some of them: https://youtube.com/shorts/MCcEBHA4_aw?feature=share We have a new OSL […]

Paul Neale showcase on this short tutorial how to model easily a book, and how to use the new Array modifier in max 2023 to procedurally scatter books in a natural and easy way.

Daniel Wichterich shared Pixel Painter, a free script that allow to easily create pixel animation inside 3dsmax! Very easy to use, and can be great for this very specific task. Just check the video to see the cool capabilities.