Pixar releases RenderMan 26
Check out the changes to the heavyweight production renderer, including updates to XPU, and interactive AI denoising in Blender.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
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Download the free edition of RenderMan 26.0
Free edition of the renderer is licensed for personal use and tools development. Compatible with Blender, Houdini, Katana and Maya.
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
Create Cinematic Concept Art for Films and Games
Discover key techniques in Blender and Photoshop with Larian Studios Art Director Jarold Sng's detailed tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Free resource: The Best 3D Turntable
Create professional-quality turntable renders of your 3D models for your portfolio with VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's handy Maya template.
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Check out free animal anatomy reference app Vertebrates
Handy free web app lets creature designers and animators manipulate real-world animal skeletons in 3D, and even see them in motion.
Sunday, April 7th, 2024
Chaos unveils Project Arena
Upcoming virtual production toolset will let studios use existing V-Ray assets on LED walls with full ray tracing "without any preprocessing".
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Connector
Open-source framework should help devs write plugins to send files between Substance 3D apps and tools like Blender and Maya.
Friday, April 5th, 2024
Unity discontinues the Ziva products
Unity ends sales of Maya tissue simulation plugin Ziva VFX, real-time toolset Ziva RT, and facial-rigging service Ziva Face Trainer.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Cell Fluids 1.6 for Blender is out
Promising lightweight Blender fluids add-on can now bake simulations for export to game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Download all of Graswald's 3D plants for free
Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.8.5 in public beta
Check out the new AI features in the virtual reality modeling software, including a handy-looking Search by Shape system.
Monday, April 1st, 2024
Building Natural Environments Using Gaea & Houdini
Discover how to recreate real-world environments for VFX and game cinematics with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Saturday, March 30th, 2024
Chaos releases Vantage 2.3
Real-time ray tracing renderer for exploring large V-Ray scenes gets support for the V-Ray Blend Material and Multi Matte render element.
Friday, March 29th, 2024