AMD launches FSR 4, AFMF 2.1 and RIS 2.0
Check out the new versions of AMD's AI-based image upscaling, sharpening and frame-generation tech, available via its GPU drivers.
Saturday, March 8th, 2025
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Baguette: a powerful free nodal rigging system for Maya
Get Nims Bun's ultra-flexible rigging framework, used in production at Pixomondo, and now available free.
Tuesday, March 7th, 2023
Stability.ai releases its Stable Diffusion add-on for Blender
Stability for Blender puts the AI image generator into Blender - for animation as well as still images.
Monday, March 6th, 2023
AMD releases FSR 2.2
Open-source render upscaling tech for games and DCC apps now supports temporal upscaling. See what's new in the latest update.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
Free tool: Mohsen Tabasi's StableDiffusion_Houdini 2.0
Use Stable Diffusion to turn simple 3D scenes in Houdini into detailed concept images and illustrations.
Monday, February 20th, 2023
Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Free add-on AI Render puts Stable Diffusion into Blender
AI image-generation framework turns simple 3D scenes in Blender into detailed, stylised concept art.
Monday, October 17th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Download 3,000 free mocap moves from Bandai Namco
Games firm's R&D division releases massive set of mocap data, plus free Blender BVH import script.
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting
Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021