Visit Gnomon's free Anatomy Lab creature design workshop
See masterclasses in painting and sculpting stylised CG creatures at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, September 5th, 2017
Free Resources
Get Creating First-Person Shooter Animations for Games
Master the skills to work on a AAA shooter with Call of Duty veteran Bill Buckley's new Gnomon tutorial.
Monday, September 4th, 2017
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.2
Update adds spline tools based on Boomer Labs' SplineTools plugin. Subscription users can run extra cloud instances free.
Thursday, August 31st, 2017
Download Graph Editor Redux 3.0 for Maya for free
Get Double Negative TD Ron Bublitz's neat - and newly updated - revamp of Maya's curve editor.
Wednesday, August 30th, 2017
D3CRYPT3D releases new free beta of PolyPort
Interesting tool lets you encrypt 3D models to prevent piracy. Now works with Blender and Maya.
Monday, August 28th, 2017
Get Epic Games' free Composure Sample for UE4
Master Unreal Engine 4.17's new Composure real-time compositing system with these free project files.
Sunday, August 27th, 2017
Download Ahmed Shalaby's free JasmineRose Maya rig
Get this free stylised female character rig for Maya, with detailed facial animation controls.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Nevercenter releases Silo 2.5
First update to the lightweight subdivision surface modelling tool for nearly three years adds FBX, Collada support; overhauls the UI.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
Ephere releases Ornatrix 1.3 for Maya
Popular hair-creation plugin gets new tools for generating realistic mesh hair, new dynamics options.
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
Become a Better Game Artist: Think Like a Game Designer
Get essential career tips from lead artists at Insomniac Games at this free event at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Saturday, August 19th, 2017
Amazon to post Lumberyard source code on GitHub
Full C++ source code of the AAA game engine to be made available in a new public GitHub repository.
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Autodesk makes Arnold free to schools and colleges
Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five.
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7 HD and KeyShot 7 Pro for ZBrush
Low-cost versions of the renderer for ZBrush users get new UI customisation, materials and environment options.
Thursday, August 17th, 2017