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Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020

Reallusion makes plugin originally priced at $1,490 free to artists earning less than $100,000/year.

Monday, January 20th, 2020

Get photography collective Q-DDL's free 3D LUTs for color grading or applying film looks to video or rendered images. Commercial use.

Sunday, January 19th, 2020

Texture and light ZBrush sculpts in Substance Painter or Marmoset Toolbag without setting up UVs.

Thursday, January 16th, 2020

Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020

Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux.

Tuesday, January 14th, 2020

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Veteran morph-based facial animation tool available as a free download. The UI shows its age, but many users still swear by it.

Sunday, January 12th, 2020

Neat 'open use' tool exports 3D terrains or heightmaps to DCC tools and game engines, at up to 65K resolution.

Friday, January 10th, 2020

Get the VFX studio's popular - and newly updated - open-source collection of compositing tools.

Monday, January 6th, 2020

Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.

Friday, January 3rd, 2020

Use the entire Megascans library for free in Unreal Engine via the newly rewritten, C++ based UE4 plugin for Quixel's asset manager.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019

Updated: Free GPU renderer's new hybrid rasterised/ray traced mode now works on AMD Polaris GPUs on Windows.

Tuesday, December 24th, 2019