Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.7 for Nuke
Nuke edition of V-Ray gets support for progressive rendering and the V-Ray hair shader and sampler.
Friday, April 27th, 2018
Free Resources
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018
Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 14.1 for After Effects
Free update to effects plugins GPU-accelerates Trapcode Form; adds DoF and IBL in Trapcode Mir.
Monday, April 23rd, 2018
See hotly tipped short 'One Small Step' at Gnomon in May
Discover how ex-Disney artists TAIKO Studios created their debut short at a free event at the school's LA campus.
Thursday, April 19th, 2018
Quadspinner ships Gaea 2480
Promising landscape generation tool gets new scale controls for erosion, better user control over soil, rain and snow distribution.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.3 for 3ds Max
Framework for converting Max scenes into browser-based apps adds support for V-Ray materials.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
Download 12 free Photoshop cutout people from VIShopper
Get free cutouts of people in cafés for use in CG work. PSD format with shadow layers. For commercial use.
Sunday, April 15th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 1.0
New free Substance integration plugin for 3ds Max now out of beta and ready for use in production.
Friday, April 13th, 2018
Foundry unveils Kanova: a volumetric sculpting tool for VR
Interesting new app based on Mischief's ADF technology will be free on Steam in early access.
Thursday, April 12th, 2018
Pond5 launches AI-driven royalty-free image search tools
Find royalty-free images or video matching photos you find online or snap with your phone camera.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
Sneak peek: 3Delight integration in Katana 3.0
Fascinating demo shows quest to remove "bullshit parameters" from the renderer, free with the upcoming Katana 3.0.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2018
AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS
Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Download 11 free hi-res aerial panoramas of clouds
Get Jacek Pilarski's 16-bit panoramas of clouds at widths over 6,000px, for use in matte paintings.
Sunday, April 8th, 2018