3 top plugins for 3D artists' toolkits
Everyone working in the 3D industry should know about these handy plugins; do you?
02. Mash (Maya)
UK production studio Mainframe is the creative powerhouse behind Mash, a procedural animation toolkit for Maya.
Mash is a suite of 24 Maya nodes aimed at enabling artists to create versatile motion-design-style animations, offering a selection of effector nodes that can be daisy-chained together to generate a wide variety of effects.
The latest version of the software builds on the strengths of the previous releases, adding extra features and streamlining the process of authoring node networks for a speedier, more intuitive workflow.
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