Download Pawel Olas's free packs of PBR leaf textures
Get free PBR texture packs from the creator of LightWave plugin treesDesigner. Commercial use.
Sunday, June 28th, 2020
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Reallusion previews SkinGen
Neat new skin-generation toolset for Character Creator generates detailed human skin complete with pores, wrinkles, blemishes and hair.
Monday, June 1st, 2020
Watch Epic Games' amazing new Unreal Engine 5 demo
See the gorgeous Lumen in the Land of Nanite UE5 demo, running in real time on a PlayStation 5.
Thursday, May 14th, 2020
Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 5
Amazing next-gen update to the game engine promises dynamic GI - and the end of polygon budgets.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
Serif is working on 3D texturing tools in Affinity Photo
See an intriguing preview of new texturing features in the popular perpetually licensed image editor.
Friday, April 17th, 2020
GIMP team ships GIMP 2.10.18
Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.
Monday, March 2nd, 2020
Download over 100 free brick, tile and concrete textures
Get textures of wall materials from CGI Vault. TIFF format, with normal and height maps. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Download free terrain editing software TerreSculptor 2.0
Neat 'open use' tool exports 3D terrains or heightmaps to DCC tools and game engines, at up to 65K resolution.
Friday, January 10th, 2020
Adobe unveils Substance Designer 2019.3
Material-authoring software to get new colour management tools, new curvature baker, and UX updates.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019
Visualise height maps in 3D with neat free tool Aerialod
Fun new app turns elevation data into 3D terrain and renders path-traced stills or turntable animations.
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Autodesk ships Flame 2020.1
VFX and finishing software gets new AI-based sky extraction system, plus the option to extract mattes from motion vector data.
Thursday, July 25th, 2019