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Tuesday, February 12th, 2019
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Download 300 free measured materials for Unity
Get Unity Technologies' new free library of real-world automotive materials, from chrome to car paint.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.10 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web apps gets support for VR and AR devices via WebXR.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Get 25 free cutout people and 25 free sky backgrounds
Download Kaiserbold's free photographic resources. Various resolutions; skies licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 10th, 2019
Check out Mesh Importer for Substance Designer
Neat add-on imports meshes into Substance Designer as 3D nodes for use within Substance materials.
Saturday, February 9th, 2019
FXhome ships Imerge Pro 2.0
Interesting RAW-focused still image editor gets GPU-based import engine, new context-sensitive workflow, and 16-bit image export.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.3
Open-source 2D animation tool gets new text generator effect, plus touchscreen support on Windows.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Download 100 free high-res HDRIs from HDRMAPS
Mainly exterior scenes, provided in EXR format at 10,000 x 5,000px resolution. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
Isotropix ships Clarisse iFX 4.0
Big update reworks the layout and rendering tool's lighting pipeline and adds USD support. See the key features and pricing changes here.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 6.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin adds option to edit distribution and colour of objects during interactive renders.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise
New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer for free
Next-gen material creation tool is now available to download for free during its beta. Will become a $99 perpetual licence on final release.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
Get games careers advice from Halo 5 creator 343 Industries
Get career tips and showreel advice at Gnomon's free event for aspiring games artists next week.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019