Get three free scanned 3D characters from Human Alloy
Download free human figures, one rigged for animation. FBX and 3ds Max formats; for commercial use.
Friday, December 29th, 2017
Free Resources
Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini
Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
Sign up for free masterclases on Unreal Engine for VFX
Discover best practices for pipeline development and rendering in UE4 at Gnomon on 20 January 2018. Watch free online.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads
Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3
New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Autodesk discontinues Stingray
Sales of the game engine to stop on 7 January 2018, but the last release will still be bundled with Maya LT 'for now'.
Friday, December 15th, 2017
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 7.6
Cloud-based production tracking system gets new Production Insights toolset for visualising analytics data.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Get Allan McKay's free 10-hour 'Decay' VFX training course
Recreate a horrific face-melting effect with this set of detailed training videos and full project files.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
WTools3D releases LWCAD 5.5
LightWave modelling plugin gets neat new procedural tools for roofs and stairs. C4D and Max versions officially no longer 'Lite' editions.
Monday, December 11th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0
Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.
Friday, December 8th, 2017