SuperSpat 1.13 plays back animated '4D Gaussian Splats'
Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.
Thursday, January 9th, 2025
Free Resources
Download free Houdini tools from Project Grot
Get free tools for generating procedural ruins and procedural flesh from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.
Wednesday, January 8th, 2025
Tik Manager 4 is a lightweight, robust open-source pipeline tool
Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.
Monday, January 6th, 2025
Photoshop render compositing add-on Post Manager is now free
Pulze's handy add-on streamlines the process of building and updating complex Photoshop files from V-Ray or Corona renders.
Sunday, January 5th, 2025
Get 95 free modular village assets for Unreal Engine
Get Scale XYZ's Pirate Stilt Village Island Modular Pack of 3D buildings, props and trees for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.
Thursday, January 2nd, 2025
Get unusual iOS digital painting app Flame Painter for free
Full version of Escape Motions' iPad and iPhone app for painting images using particle brushes is now free, as is mandala-creation app Inspirit.
Saturday, December 28th, 2024
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 1.7
Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.
Thursday, December 26th, 2024
Check out Blender's experimental anime rendering builds
New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.
Tuesday, December 17th, 2024
Blender add-on ClayPencil turns 2D animation into 3D 'claymation'
Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.
Friday, December 13th, 2024
Autodesk open-sources USD for 3ds Max
Source code for the USD add-on for the 3D modeling and animation software is now available under an Apache 2.0 license.
Saturday, December 7th, 2024
Get Epic Games' free Project Titan Unreal Engine sample
Download an 8km x 8km UE5 environment created in a massive 10-week art jam, with custom plugins and world-building tools.
Friday, December 6th, 2024
Download ActionVFX's 20 free stock VFX clips of asteroids
The clips of asteroids and asteroid fields are licensed for commercial use - but they're only free for a limited time, so grab them fast.
Monday, December 2nd, 2024
3DGS Render 2.0 now lets you edit 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender
3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on lets you edit 3DGS scan data inside Blender, and apply simple animated effects.
Tuesday, November 26th, 2024