CG Toolkit releases the Character Learning Kit, a 3 DVD Boxset that includes "The Making of Leon" Creature creation tutorial and an all new E-Book, "The Art of 3D Toons".

This new 3 DVD Boxset is available now.




CG Toolkit is pleased to announce our Summer Book Sale. All "Art of" titles for Maya Rigging and Softimage|XSI are now available for 40% off at www.cgtoolkit.com.

The CG Toolkit Summer Book Sale ends June 28th, 2007.



CGToolkit is currently seeking english speaking Proofreaders with experience using Softimage|XSI for an upcoming release.

Please e-mail salesdesk@cgtoolkit.net for more details.

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CGToolkit releases the third and final volume in the Art of Rigging series, ''The Art of Rigging, Volume 3''.

The final volume of the acclaimed series includes a DVD with over 5 hours of video content and workfiles for the price of $59.



CGToolkit releases the second volume in the Art of Rigging series, ''The Art of Rigging, Volume 2''.

The second book of the critically acclaimed series includes a DVD with over 7 hours of content for the price of $59.



CGToolkit to launch it's first book, ''The Art of Rigging''.

As the computer graphics industry's newest publisher, CG Toolkit announces it's first book titled, ''The Art of Rigging''. Book + DVD (over 9 hours of content) for an incredible price of $59, while stock lasts.



The Making of Leon 3DVD Boxset is now on sale for $79.00 (while supplies last). You can also purchase the stand alone MuscleTK Plugin for a sepcial sale price of $59.00



MuscleTK receives 9/10 from 3D World magazine. The review is now available in issue 62.

More information here.



CG Channel has a featured article on The Making of Leon, including a review of the MuscleTK Plugin and an interview with CG Toolkit CEO Karim Biri.

Read the article here.



CGNetworks has conducted an interview with CG Toolkit's CEO Karim Biri. You can read it here.


MuscleTK has been updated to include Action Lines. Action Lines are a new way of controlling NURB's muscles. They allow much better control when using multiple secondary motion surfaces. They can be used in place of muscle deformers as an alternative way of controlling the deformation of your muscle surfaces.

Click here for a video preview (44mb AVI).
Can't view the preview? Click here for the codec.


CG Toolkit announces their first release in the form of a training DVD for digital character artists titled The Making of Leon. The DVD follows, in detail, the process of creating a film quality digital creature from a clay statuette to the finished animation rig inside Alias Maya 6.0. The Making of Leon includes over 10hrs of footage spanning 3 DVDs. Included on the DVD is a full commercial version of Muscle TK, the world's first muscle and skinning plugin for Alias Maya 6.0.



CG Toolkit announces the release of Muscle TK for Alias Maya. Developed under the Alias Conductors program, Muscle TK gives creature TD's an alternative to traditional rigid and smooth binding techniques for their digital creatures.
Muscle TK allows artists to give their creatures realistic musculature with two different methods of attaching that musculature to the creatures skin or 'mesh'. With Muscle TK skin, your digital creature's skin can realistically slide over muscle surfaces that are driven by underlying Maya joints.


Maintaining your creature's body-volume while undergoing deformations has traditionally been a painstaking process involving influence objects and blendshapes. Muscle TK's muscle deformer gives setup artists a quick and easy way to create fleshy body parts that squash and stretch in a realistic manner.