Download the assets from Epic Games' UE4 Kite demo
Free Open World Demo Collection asset pack includes 42 rock and tree meshes, 138 hi-res textures.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Free Resources
Eisko ships PBR character shader pack for Unity 5
SSS skin shader used in digital doubles firm's real-time demos now available via the Unity Asset Store.
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
The Foundry announces Modo 901
Price of an individual licence up $300, but MeshFusion comes free. See the new modelling, UV and rendering tools here.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2015
Clara.io hits 100,000 users; celebrates with a redesign
Popular browser-based 3D modelling, animation and rendering system gets new streamlined look.
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Side Effects releases beta of Houdini Engine for UE4
Updated: New plugin for using Houdini content inside Unreal Engine 4 now available for testing.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter
Master the next-gen texturing tool with a four-hour video guide from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Sneak peek: see Fusion 7 running on a Mac
New teaser shows Blackmagic Design's formerly Windows-only compositing app running on OS X.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
E-on software releases PlantFactory 2015
New users of the plant-creation tool get simplified UI and materials workflow; power users get Alembic, Ptex and GoZ support.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Thunder Cloud Studio releases GMH2 for Maya
Updated, sneak peek at version 2.6: Neat script lets users create hair as polys, then convert to Maya Hair.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
Check out intriguing $19 paint app Paintstorm Studio
Natural media paint package acts like a hybrid of Painter and Manga Studio, with cool new tools on top.
Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
Liquid Dream Solutions ships ButterflyNetRender 6
Multi-application network rendering controller now fully compatible with OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, March 26th, 2015
DNA Research ships 3Delight for 3ds Max 2.0
RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015