Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Latest News
3ds Max 2018 will include Arnold, not Mental Ray
Max 2018 to include a limited-use version of Arnold in place of Iray or Mental Ray when it ships this April.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
New Gnomon video: Creating Props for Games, Vol 2.
Master PBR shading workflows in Substance Painter and UE4 with Riot Games' Nick Reynolds' detailed guide.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
3d-io ships Unwrella 3.10
Long-established automatic UV unfolding plugin for 3ds Max and Maya gets fast new flatten unwrap mode for hard-surface objects.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
PUX releases Hard Mesh 2
Neat hard-surface modelling plugin lets Maya users create complex Booleans, then continue to edit the combined geometry interactively.
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 1.5
Updated: New add-on lets users organise Photoshop brushes and tools presets via drag-and-drop.
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Greyscalegorilla releases Gorilla Grade LUTs
Top C4D tools provider ships 100 readymade looks for After Effects, Nuke and other compositing tools.
Monday, March 20th, 2017
Download 15 free scanned 3D characters from xoio-air
Get a useful range of male and female figures in OBJ and MAX formats. Can be used commercially.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Download free 3D scans of a female figure and a xenomorph
Get SnapTank's hi-res scans of human and alien figures free until 31 March. OBJ format, textured.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
New Gnomon video: Multi Pass Rendering and Compositing
Master advanced workflows like deep compositing with Psyop veteran Robby Branham's detailed four-hour tutorial.
Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
Boomer Labs and JokerMartini release Vexus 2.0
3ds Max scene and render pass manager gets Deadline integration, 'universal render engine support'.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
NewTek previews LightWave Next
Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.
Thursday, March 16th, 2017