Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.27
Check out the free game engine's new Houdini-integrated Nvidia Blast destruction physics system and improved cloth simulation.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Free Resources
Get 75 free 3D plants suitable for North American forests
Download DigitalTris' 75 free 3D models of trees, ferns and grasses on the Unreal Engine marketplace.
Sunday, December 13th, 2020
Download ActionVFX's three free stock effects collections
Get over 50 free After Effects camera shake presets, and 2K ProRes portal and bullet FX clips.
Sunday, December 13th, 2020
Download the project files for Epic Games' Meerkat demo
Get the rigged 3D characters from Epic's beautiful new Unreal Engine demo free in Maya and UE4 format.
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.0 for Blender
Free physically accurate renderer now offers hardware-accelerated ray tracing on new AMD GPUs.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.91
Open-source 3D app gets another major update. Read our five-minute run-down of all the key changes.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Quixel ships Mixer 2020.1.6
Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Quixel ships Bridge 2020.4
Check out the latest workflow improvements in Quixel's free tool for exporting Megascans assets to DCC apps and game engines.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
MakeHuman 1.2 ships
Open-source 3D character creator gets new tools for authoring skin materials and character variations, new Blender integration plugin.
Monday, November 23rd, 2020
Download 35 free hi-res tree models in FBX format
Get TD Midge Sinnaeve's models of fir, spruce, birch, cherry and maple trees. CC0 licence, with textures.
Sunday, November 15th, 2020
Polycam turns your iPad Pro into a real-time LIDAR scanner
Updated - now on iPhone Pro too: neat $12 app builds up 3D scans of objects as you walk around them.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Krita Foundation ships Krita 4.4
Open-source painting software gets scriptable fill layers, support for dynamic colour gradients, and improved MyPaint colour picker.
Monday, October 19th, 2020
Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine
Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020