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
Free Resources
Free tool Kiko ports animation curves from Maya to Nuke
Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4
New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.
Friday, August 31st, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini Reality Capture plugin as free beta
New photogrammetry plugin lets artists use RealityCapture's popular toolset directly inside Houdini.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Epic Games ships free MotionBuilder Live Link for UE4
Free plugin streams mocap data from MotionBuilder to preview it inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Download Grzegorz Baran's 16 spherical 8K HDRIs for free
Use the Ubisoft environment artist's discount code to get his new 360 HDRI Panorama Pack 01 for free.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Download Kungfujackrabbit Studio's 25 free HDRIs
Get 25 synthetic HDRIs for use in product renders. 10,000 x 5,000px resolution, for commercial use.
Sunday, July 15th, 2018
Download 29 free Eisklotz HDRIs at resolutions up to 16K
Get 29 high-res HDRIs of interior and exterior scenes, many with backplates. For commercial use.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Download 50 free 8K PBR textures from Texture Haven
New site provides high-resolution scanned textures of environment materials under a CC0 licence.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo
Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
Get SideFX's free Sketchfab Uploader for Houdini
New free add-on lets artists export 3D models to their Sketchfab portfolios directly inside Houdini.
Monday, June 18th, 2018