Use Blender's Cycles renderer inside Houdini with hdCycles
Now shipping: Tangent Animation's neat free plugin makes Blender a Hydra render delegate in Houdini.
Tuesday, August 25th, 2020
Free Resources
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 2.5 for Blender in beta
Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets neat 'target frame rate' setting for viewport renders.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
Download KitBash3D's free Neo City buildings kit
Get futuristic 3D buildings in the native formats of 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Maya, Houdini, UE4 and Unity. For commercial use.
Monday, August 17th, 2020
Free tool EbSynth turns video into hand-painted animation
Now in beta: neat app applies the look of hand-painted stills to video. Now exports direct to After Effects.
Friday, August 14th, 2020
Download free ZBrush workflow add-on FJTools 1.5
Handy plugin for managing and renaming SubTools gets new one-click system for remeshing sculpts.
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Download 50 free 3D models of jungle plants
Get environment artist Baiquni Abdillah's 50 3D models of South East Asian trees, ferns and flowers.
Sunday, August 9th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Check out open-source auto-retopology tool AutoRemesher
New app from Dust3D developer Jeremy Hu turns source meshes into uniform all-quad geometry.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
CamTrackAR exports camera tracks to Blender for free
FXhome's iOS camera tracking app also exports to HitFilm; the paid version exports to After Effects.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020
Download four free high-resolution UV checkermaps
Get Maurus Loeffel's custom UV checkermaps, plus the Illustrator file to create your own designs.
Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
Download Cinema 4D painting add-on 4D Paint for free
Get Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's handy real-time projection painting add-on free for Cinema 4D R20+.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.25
Sizeable update to the free AAA game engine introduces new UI, plus white box testing and node-based landscape authoring tools.
Monday, July 20th, 2020