Free Resources

Boris FX ships Silhouette 2020

Sizeable update to the rotoscoping and paint software adds features across the board. Mocha planar tracker now thrown in for free.

Thursday, November 14th, 2019

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2020

Major free update to the sculpting app adds new history-aware brushes, option to paint or sculpt on the UV unwrap of a model.

Wednesday, November 13th, 2019

Epic Games acquires Quixel

All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Foundry ships Modo 13.2

3D modelling and animation tool gets new mPath render engine, new Planar IK solver for character rigging, new Edge Chamfer tool.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0

Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.

Tuesday, November 5th, 2019

Adobe ships Dimension 3.0

Designer-focused 3D tool gets support for multiple directional lights, improved render preview, early support for GPU rendering.

Monday, November 4th, 2019

Adobe ships After Effects 17.0

Compositing software gets more fluid playback of cached previews, faster Content-Aware fill, better EXR import, Cryptomatte support.

Monday, November 4th, 2019