Alexey Vanzhula makes Flux available for free
Get the neat real-time Boolean and retopology toolset for Houdini free. Works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
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Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 3 for 3ds Max
Renderer gets support for GPU-based render denoising, better displacement, reduced RAM use.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Download neat new free camera matching tool fSpy
Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.3
Texture painting tool gets 'huge boost' to viewport performance and quality, better symmetry painting.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Videos: see Siggraph Asia 2018's best technical papers
Watch the best tech demos from the show - from advances in VR to new ways to melt your CG dragon.
Tuesday, November 20th, 2018
Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding
New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.3
Landscape-generation software gets new cloud animation controls and new deferred shading mode.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Download a free 8K aerial HDRI from HDRI Hub
Shot above the clouds for use when rendering aircraft. EXR format, 8,192 x 4,096px in size.
Sunday, November 18th, 2018
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course
Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.16
Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Foundry ships Modo 12.2
Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.
Friday, November 16th, 2018