"Craft Director Studio in conjuction with the use of Pre-Rigged Models is effective and extremely efficient animation workflow. Given our tight time constraints, we could not have achieved this quality with traditional key-framing, from countless hours to realtime tools, this is value added proposition...less time, stellar results!"

Slice it Up is a tool that cuts footage into any number of vertically aligned slices by duplicating it N times and applying random width masks to it. Those pieces are brought into one composition later and laid one over another to create undistorted image. Tool provides controls to set random or linear offset to X, Y and Z position for each slice, adjust the expansion and rotation angles for the mask.

Ray Dynamic Texture is your solution to tedious texture work. This tool conveniently stores textures, including their layer settings, applied effects, keyframes, expressions and layer styles. It’s simplicity is key: After you’ve set it up you can apply it directly as a texture to any selected layer. In addition to this, the tool can store your most used Effects, Shapes and Expressions—all with one click.

Mastin Labs creates the most accurate film emulation presets on the market for both Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR.)

With great pleasure, Render Legion announce the release of Corona Renderer 1.7 for Autodesk 3ds Max. In this release focus on massive rendering speedups, accelerating your workflow, and making your 3D people look amazingly realistic.

Arnold is an advanced Monte Carlo ray tracing renderer built for the demands of feature-length animation and visual effects. Originally co-developed with Sony Pictures Imageworks and now their main renderer, Arnold is used at over 300 studios worldwide including ILM, Framestore, MPC, The Mill and Digic Pictures. Arnold was the primary renderer on dozens of films from Monster House and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs to Pacific Rim and Gravity.

Sunshine through clouds, headlights in fog, or light rays sweeping a logo: Trapcode Shine does it all. Create 3D volumetric light effects without leaving your 2D editing timeline, and without the tedious render times of specialized 3D applications. Choose from 22 compelling Shine presets, or make your own light rays from scratch. Support for 16- and 32-bit guarantees high-quality effects for every project.

VRayPattern is a plug-in for 3ds Max and V-Ray that allows you to multiply geometry without extra memory consumption. As a sample, you can use any tiled geometry (or whose with unobtrusive joints). The plug-in is best used where huge amounts of geometries are required, but without great accuracy.

CityTraffic v2.027 For 3ds Max | 18 MB

CityTraffic is a plug-in for 3ds Max which helps to create car traffic flow on the roads and off-roads.

MultiScatter is a plug-in for 3ds max which works with V-Ray, Mental Ray, Corona and Octane rendering systems. It is possible to create complicated scenes with a huge amount of objects easy and quickly with the aid of this plug-in.

MadCar 3 is a plug-in for 3DS Max for quick rigging of wheeled vehicles and their animations by simulating the control.

SplineLand v1.042 For 3ds Max    | 19 MB

SplineLand is a plugin for Autodesk 3ds Max that helps to generate topographically accurate terrains from a set of splines and lay roads. Without SplineLand it is almost impossible to achieve such accurate results in 3ds Max. Now you can do it quickly, in just a few clicks your topographical data in form of splines can become a terrain.

Create digital backgrounds for photography and other design mediums with Backdrop Designer. Pick from hundreds of premade digital backdrops or customize your own backgrounds. This Adobe Photoshop plugin creates beautiful resolution-independent backdrops, very similar to those expensive muslin drapes you may currently have in your photography studio.