Get Anastasiy's free Extension Manager 3.0 for Adobe apps
Free Adobe-recommended utility (un)installs all third-party add-ons for apps like Photoshop and Premiere Pro.
Sunday, October 21st, 2018
Free Resources
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Preflight prepares 3ds Max models for export to UE4
SiNi Software's new plugin automatically identifies missing textures and fixes doubled or flipped faces.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
thinkingParticles 6.7 ships
Big update to the 3ds Max particle plugin's fluid simulation tools adds new options for generating waves, water levels and diffusion effects.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2018
Ephere announces Ornatrix for Cinema 4D
Popular 3ds Max hair, fur and feathers tool coming to Cinema 4D. Sign up to join the beta program.
Monday, October 15th, 2018
Get 250+ free custom ZBrush brushes from XMD Source
Online library of ZBrush assets now includes the Dig brush name-checked at ZBrush Summit 2018.
Sunday, October 14th, 2018
Insydium ships the X-Particles 2018 public release
Subscriber update to the Cinema 4D particle simulation tool promises 16x faster particle collisions and 2.5x faster fluid sims.
Friday, October 12th, 2018
Kinematic Lab releases TopoLogiK for 3ds Max
Neat new $35 plugin lets users retopologise models by drawing poly sheets across their surface.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini 17
Videos: major Houdini update adds Vellum multphysics solver, new cloth and hair tools, material-based facturing and simulation retiming.
Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
Foundry makes its software free to students for a year
New Education Collective bundles also provide ongoing discounts on Nuke, Mari, Modo and Katana.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
PlaySys ships Real IES 3.0
Newly updated lighting design app lets users create their own custom IES lights, including those with complex or asymmetric profiles.
Tuesday, October 9th, 2018
New plugin implements elastic implicit skinning in Maya
Novel method promises fewer artefacts and better skin contact than dual quaternion skinning.
Monday, October 8th, 2018
Come to Substance Day LA 2018 at Gnomon next week
Watch an evening of free Substance Painter and Designer masterclasses at the school's Hollywood campus.
Monday, October 8th, 2018