Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies
Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Free Resources
Gnomon ships Developing Storytelling Skills from Life
Illustrator April Connors' three-hour guide to figure drawing sets out essential skills for character and costume designers.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Get Chaos Group's free 60 page guide to GPU rendering
Download a PDF overview of key trends and best practices in GPU rendering. Targeted at V-Ray, but useful to anyone.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
The Foundry releases Modo 10.1
Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Valve releases Destinations Workshop Tools for free
Create immersive VR environments using the same Source 2 toolset used internally at Valve itself.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Discover how Luma Pictures creates Marvel-ous VFX
The Ant-Man and Avengers veterans reveal their secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus on Thursday. Watch free online.
Monday, June 13th, 2016
Discover how to create VR games in Unreal Engine
Come to Epic Games' free four-hour masterclass at Gnomon's Hollywood campus on Wednesday 15 June.
Friday, June 10th, 2016
Autodesk ships Stingray 1.3
Game engine gets new fur, cloth and clear coat shaders, plus support for texture streaming and Nvidia's APEX real-time cloth simulation system.
Thursday, June 9th, 2016
AXYZ design ships Anima 2
Major update rewrites 3ds Max and Cinema 4D crowd animation tool 'from scratch'; adds new WYSIWG editor and greater range of controls.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.4 for 3ds Max and Maya
Update to the renderer adds neat interactive denoising system, improved GI and GPU rendering.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
Discover how legendary movie posters were created
Visit creative director Tomasz Opasinski's free movie poster design workshop at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday.
Monday, June 6th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2.1
VFX-friendly update to 3D texture painting tool adds new Linux version, support for UDIM assets and 8K texture export.
Friday, June 3rd, 2016