PipelineFX introduces metered licensing for Qube!
Rent licences of the renderfarm manager on the fly; pay per minute at a rate equivalent to $0.10/hour.
Wednesday, July 13th, 2016
Free Resources
Ephere releases Ornatrix for Maya
Popular 3ds Max hair plugin now out for Maya. Supports Nucleus physics and Arnold, V-Ray, Redshift and RenderMan rendering.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
AlphaVFX ships BulletFX 4
Fast-evolving 3ds Max multiphysics plugin gets revamped FLIP fluid, cloth and FEM solvers, better V-Ray support, plus more streamlined UI.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2016
See how to create hyper realistic ZBrush characters
Watch WWE lead character artist Hossein Diba sculpt Stone Cold Steve Austin in Gnomon's new ZBrush masterclass.
Monday, July 11th, 2016
Get 20 free smoke plume and 10 dust wave FX clips
Download them in 2K resolution from new stock practical effects footage site ActionVFX. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Download Joost Vanhoutte's free textures and cutouts
Updated: Get 50 foliage cutouts, over 1,800 texture reference images, and 111 new free stone textures.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Pilgway releases 3D-Coat 4.7
Big update to voxel sculpting and painting package adds 'completely remade' PBR shading system, plus neat new low-poly retopology tools.
Saturday, July 9th, 2016
FurryBall RT 1.3 ships, adds new free 'Credit version'
Updated: Just logging in now gives you up 30 free hours of rendering a month, even for commercial jobs.
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
The Foundry ships Cara VR
Updated: New plugin toolset for Nuke aims to tackle key problems of creating virtual reality content. See the full feature set and pricing here.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Get an inside guide to the art of The Force Awakens
Star Wars matte painter Nick Hiatt shares his secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows
Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Red Giant rolls out Universe 2.0
Library of add-ons for compositing apps gets good-looking new HUD-creation toolset, but free subscriptions axed.
Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016