Epic to offer $50,000 grants for indie Unreal projects
Money available for shorts and visualisations as well as games - and even student class projects.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
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Nvidia releases new mental ray Alembic import shader
Free download adds support for hair and subdivision controls for NURBS and sub-Ds. Works with Maya 2015.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 1.3
Games texturing tool to get new Smart Materials system, texture bakers, improved viewport display.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
You can do it! VFX unveils Nyx DBR for 3ds Max
Updated: Distributed rendering plugin, formerly called Nexus DBR, now out in alpha for early users.
Thursday, February 19th, 2015
Act-3D releases Lumion 5.3
Real-time visualisation tool can now create normal maps automatically and render 'poster-res' images.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Get Ten24's free hi-res 3D scan of a human head
Supplied in OBJ format with textures, plus a render-ready Modo scene, including an SSS shader set-up.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Mainframe North releases Mash 3.3 for Maya
Set of 27 handy motion graphics nodes now available on Linux as well as Windows and Mac OS X.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015
Get 26 free HDRIs in EXR, HDR and Marmoset formats
Download Joost Vanhoutte's pack of 26 3K-resolution HDRIs. 23 of them are licensed for commercial use.
Monday, February 16th, 2015
Get A&G Tool Company's free V-Ray clay template
Downloadable 3ds Max template turns any model into an attractive clay-shaded turntable animation.
Thursday, February 12th, 2015
Download 116 free 360° environments from Texturify
They're only LDR images, but the resolution is good, and they're all licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Serif launches Affinity Photo as free beta
Potential $50 Photoshop rival offers solid pro workflow, advanced tools like 'inpainting' and tilt-shift blur.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Free Blender shader turns 3D models into pixel art
Toshihiro Kushizaki's Pixel Art Shader renders any polygonal model as a retro-style BMP image.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
Autodesk acquires Tweak Software
Developers of the RV image viewer will join Autodesk's Shotgun team: tools may be integrated in future.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015