Productions Michel Marois Multimedia

Platige Image has recently completed an impressive trailer for the role-playing video game developed by Polish studio CD Projekt RED, adapted from the book series by Andrzej Sapkowski. The video was directed by renowned Polish director Tomek Baginski, with 3DS Max used as the main production tool. A big part of cloth simulation was done […]

FiberMesh to Splines is a new plugin by Marius Silaghi designed to convert exported FiberMesh fur, fibers and hair from ZBrush to splines in 3DS Max. More at Marius Silaghi’s site. […]

An interesting turn of events. One of the original developers of 3D Studio and 3DS Max, Gus Grubba, who’s worked as a senior software engineer for the Yost Group, Autodesk and later Mental Images, has joined Imagination Technologies to focus on Brazil 3 renderer integration with 3DS Max. More at Brazil’s forums. […]

ScriptAttack announced the upcoming release of BonyFace 3.0, the latest version of its commercial script for rigging and animating facial expressions. New features include an improved rig for eyes, mouth and jaw, enhanced controls, many UI changes, a lipsync layer, and more. BonyFace’s price will be raised after version 3.0 is released, it’s still being [... […]

“The more one reads the more one sees we have to read.” The visual medium pays homage to the written word in this great short film by US artists William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg. The complete version is finally available online, watch it on Vimeo. For more information check out the making of and an […]

Miguel Gómez from Dimensión 2.5 interviews the developers of Nuke, Mari, Hiero and more on the origins and evolution of the company. (English|Spanish) […]

Thinkbox Software has just released XMesh, a set of tools for caching animated scene geometry to an external file sequence and loading this data later for rendering. It has been tested and polished for years in production and offers the following advantages over Max’s PointCache modifier: - Support for changing topology. - Support for changing […]

Scanimator is a simple and fun utility for converting animated GIF images to scanimations (animated optical illusions based on slices of frames). Check out a sample video on YouTube and find out more at Scanimator’s site. […]

Scott Farrar and Scott Benza of Industrial Light & Magic, take you behind a complex shot from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Watch it on YouTube. […]

A genre-based, stylized short created at French school ESMA by Frédéric Azais, Théo Di Malta, Benjamin Leymonerie and Adrien Quillet. Watch it on Vimeo. […]

Changes for v1.6 are:- Adds support for the new Mascot Capsule eruptionST realtime stereo rendererThe english pages haven't been updated yet, so the links abo ... […]

Changes for v1.1 are:- You can now update multiple maps at once […]

FiberMesh to Splines converts […]

CadRemote consists of a global utility plugin and […]

XMesh MX is the Max implementation of the XMesh toolset, a set of tools for caching animated scene geometry to an external file sequence and for loading this data later for ren ... […]

Changes for v2.0.1.46309 are:- Fixes uncaught exceptions in MaxKrakatoaIParticleObjectExt::UpdateParticles- MaxKrakatoaIParticleObjectExt::GetSpeed...() now returns ... […]

Changes for v3.3.1.1 are:- There is now a demo version available […]

Until the end of January, Heavenly Pictures are running a special offer on their Polygon Creator plugin where a license only costs $30 instead of $55. Full information can be f ... […]

Changes for v1.52 are:- Wrapit no longer needs to be launched before Morphit- Fixes the Pixel Hive link in the UIThanks go to Shawn Olson for the update ... […]

This is the full-featured Max utility for importing crowd simulations from MASSIVE to Max for rendering, FX and more.Features include:- Load default agents […]

Simple Lego Head scripted Geometry Plug-in. :) […]

FiberMesh to Splines will convert the exported FiberMesh polygons from ZBrush to splines. The splines can be used to create and render 3DS Max hair either with 3DS Max default hair modifier or using a hair plugin that has a recomb from splines option.   […]

This scripted plug-in was wanted in the forum. It simply unifies the gizmo of instanced modifiers. […]

Hi all, This is the very first chapter of the rigging tutorial in 3d max. In this tutorial we will learn how to create a ready to animate character rig in 3d max. To rig the character we are going to use the bone system in max. In the first chapter we will learn how easily we can create the spine bone with few clicks in max. Hope you will enjoy the technique […]

  I create a script to import KML files from GoogleEarth paths to 3ds MAX splines Install to Scripts\Startup\importKML How to use: Select KML in [...] button Select track zone number only Hemisphere is North always, south not work. but i think works to south Press [Import KML File] and KML load and center to origin. After first import Track center appears Co […]

With this modifier, you can project your object into either a box, a cylinder or a sphere. In box mode, you will have ability to modify the width, length and height. In cylinder mode, you can change the radius, the height and the direction. In Sphere mode, you can only change the radius. There is also a global parameter in percentage that control the overall […]

A simple detach tool that explodes the selected objects into their elements. […]

Quickly assign a box mapping of 1m³, 0.5 or 0.1 […]

When you want lock an object like a camera, you must check each box on the hierarchy > link infoSame thing when you want to unlock. This script automatically do it for all entries. […]

This is a 3dsMax previsualization tool. It allows you to jump cameras and time to previs scenes. […]