Get 400 free 3D assets from Uppercut Games' City of Brass

Download 3D buildings, props and characters from the console and PC title via the Unreal Marketplace. Commercial use.

Sunday, February 21st, 2021

Serif is working on 3D texturing tools in Affinity Photo

See an intriguing preview of new texturing features in the popular perpetually licensed image editor.

Friday, April 17th, 2020

Aaron Dabelow open-sources his 3ds Max add-ons

Handy tools like procedural geometry creator Debris Maker 2 available free under a MIT licence.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020

Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Visualise height maps in 3D with neat free tool Aerialod

Fun new app turns elevation data into 3D terrain and renders path-traced stills or turntable animations.

Sunday, October 20th, 2019

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2019.2

Release adds new Fluid Loader object for tweaking and rendering cached sims, further updates to Alembic and OSL.

Thursday, September 20th, 2018

Unreal Studio now free until November 2019

Suite of tools for getting CAD data into Unreal Engine for visualisation to stay in open beta another year.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2018

iToo Software releases RailClone 3.2 for 3ds Max

Parametric modelling plugin gets support for V-Ray Next and Arnold; new food products in asset library.

Thursday, July 5th, 2018

Unity now comes with ProBuilder built in for free

Popular level design and modelling tool now part of Unity 2018.1 after buyout of original devs ProCore.

Tuesday, February 20th, 2018

Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D moves into free beta

Beta 1 release adds support for interactive rendering, the Corona Image Editor, and material layering.

Monday, February 5th, 2018

Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1

Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2018.4, 3ds Max Interactive 2.0

Core app gets new fluid simulation options; Stingray-based 'VR engine' gets support for IES light profiles.

Friday, December 8th, 2017

3DFlow ships 3DF Zephyr 3.5

Photogrammetry software gets support for custom shaders, option to export textures in EXR format or as 32-bit TIFFs, 4K video output.

Thursday, November 16th, 2017