Watch the classes from Autodesk University 2012
Lots of free tutorials for 3ds Max and Maya, but only a couple for Mudbox, MotionBuilder and Softimage.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Free Resources
Video Copilot releases Element 3D 1.5
Free update to the plugin adds support for rendering 3D animations in real time inside After Effects.
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
RandomControl previews relighting in Arion 2.4
Physically based hybrid CPU/GPU renderer to export new 'LightMixer' layers without raising render times.
Monday, January 21st, 2013
Eye candy: Exodus
Cool glows rule supreme in Magnus Östergren's unique freeform short, created with After Effects' Mir plugin.
Friday, January 18th, 2013
Download Para 3d 2.9 free
Grab the latest version of Ali Torabi's plugin for designing complex parametric arrays in 3ds Max.
Monday, January 14th, 2013
Download PD Pro 5 for free
And unlike Photoshop CS2, your copy of this painting and image-editing package is definitely legal.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Watch Next Limit's RealFlow 2013 preview event
Updated with another new video: see the new FLIP solver, scene graphs, and support for Alembic and Field3D.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Lightstorm3D updates L3Library for Maya
Free set of utilities gets new Geo Locator tool for constraining objects to surfaces. Works well with vehicles.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
Substance Bonus Tools for Maya 2 now available
Allegorithmic updates its free set of texturing utilities, adding new scripts and links to RenderMan and Arnold.
Wednesday, January 9th, 2013
Adobe hasn't made Creative Suite 2 available for free
Despite what you may have read on CNET or Gizmodo, or the fact that the download links are still live.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Eye candy: Juan Gonzalez's Mandelbulb animation
See what the Arnold renderer can do even outside big VFX studios with this 250-million-particle 3D fractal.
Monday, January 7th, 2013
FluidRay RT enters free beta
Updated: Physically accurate renderer based on Intel's Embree kernels becomes available for Mac as well as Windows.
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Download 140 Xfrog plant models for free
Get 31 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013