Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.17
Update to free game engine improves workflow in the Asset Browser and Entity Outliner, particularly if working with slices.
Thursday, December 20th, 2018
Free Resources
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
Download 5,000 free texture images from Texture Ninja
Get textures and photo cutouts from 3D artist Joost Vanhoutte's website under a free CC0 licence.
Sunday, December 16th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Unity 2018.3 ships
Update adds support for nested prefabs, new particle and terrain tools. Visual Effect Graph and GPU lightmapper out as tech previews.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Quixel tools now available separately to Megascans data
New policy lets Megascans users subscribe purely to Quixel Bridge and Quixel Mixer for $19/month.
Monday, December 10th, 2018
Download free 3D scans of food from creative crops
Get free scans of bread and vegetables in OBJ, FBX or Cinema 4D format with 8K PBR textures. Commercial use.
Sunday, December 9th, 2018
Spend an evening with Simon Stålenhag at Gnomon
Meet the creator of Tales from the Loop and The Electric State at an exclusive Q&A at the school's LA campus next week.
Saturday, December 8th, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Nevercenter ships Silo 2.5.6
Lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool gets GoZ support for exchanging models with ZBrush.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 4 R2
Popular suite of 250+ add-on tools for Foundry's 3D painting software now updated to support Mari 4.x.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Shotgun Software ships Shotgun 8
Major update to the production tracking system introduces new 'cloud-connected desktop app' Shotgun Create.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018