CGArena releases 300 free animal reference images
Download free-to-use hi-res images of our furred, feathered and scaly friends from their online library.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Free Resources
xoio ships 24 free textures of bark, leaves, roads
Suitable for commercial work and complete with normal, bump, displacement and/or alpha maps.
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Download three free HD timelapse skies
Get free 1080p videos of skies for use as visualisation backdrops, each recorded by artist Marc Lorenz.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Register for the free Houdini FLIP fluids webinar
Sign up for the free 30-minute session on Houdini 12's fluid simulation tools, held next month.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Jupiter Jazz releases AtomKraft for Nuke for free
Download a free two-thread version of the Nuke look development, lighting and rendering toolset today.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Gnomon ships 150-minute Alex Alvarez tutorial for free
Explore the creation process for the large-scale illustration pictured above in The Making of 'Gathering'.
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Sign up for bluegfx's free London ZBrush 4R3 event
See Climax and Framestore artists run through its new features at the Transport Museum on 19 April.
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Adobe releases free beta of Photoshop CS6
New UI, new OpenEXR capabilities, more speed - but will that Content Aware Move tool actually work?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Viz-People releases six free models of sofas
In MAX format, V-Ray compatible, and ready for use in your commercial visualisation work.
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Pixologic releases free ZBrush 4R3 update
Updated: now shipping, adding lots of cool new tools including the NoiseMaker plugin.
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
Get XParticles: XPresso-free particle sims for Cinema 4D
Developers Steve Pedler and Mike Batchelor release their versatile alternative to Thinking Particles.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
DAZ 3D: why we gave our software away for free
Last week, DAZ gave away 3D software worth tens of millions of dollars. This week, they tell us why.
Friday, February 10th, 2012
Check out p3d.in - free new online model display tool
Share 3D models with clients or workmates with this plugin-free WebGL-based viewing service.
Thursday, February 9th, 2012