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Get free rigged 3D characters and mocap moves from Reallusion's ActorCore library. FBX format, for commercial use.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.

Thursday, January 20th, 2022

Get free rendered explosions for use in VFX compositing. 2K EXR image sequences; commercial use.

Sunday, January 9th, 2022

Free AI-based tool for generating facial animation from audio can now create sets of facial shapes for export in USD format.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Real-time collaboration platform for 3D design and content creation now out of beta. Check out all of its latest features here.

Wednesday, January 5th, 2022

Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.

Tuesday, January 4th, 2022

Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.

Thursday, December 30th, 2021

Get 6 free FX clips of emergency flares, 19 cartoon fire and smoke effects, and 50 dirt textures. For commercial use.

Tuesday, December 28th, 2021

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

Sunday, December 19th, 2021

Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Updated: cut-down edition of popular auto-rigging system ACS2 now also works with Modo Indie.

Sunday, December 12th, 2021