Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Holiday 2024 deals for CG artists
Updated 24 December: Find discounts on CG hardware and software available until New Year, including 3DCoat, FumeFX and Yeti.
Tuesday, December 24th, 2024
Free Resources
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2024.30
Check out the new features in the sculpting and retopology app, including integration with RealityCapture for photogrammetry.
Monday, December 23rd, 2024
Terragen Sky now lets you paint clouds into the sky directly
Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.
Friday, December 20th, 2024
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8
Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.
Friday, December 20th, 2024
Photoshop users can now create filters in Substance 3D Designer
Current beta build of the image-editing app lets users create and import custom image-stylization filters as Substance 3D .sbsar files.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Pixar releases RenderMan 26.3
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.
Thursday, December 19th, 2024
Create game characters with CC Auto Setup for 3ds Max and V-Ray
[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2024
Unigine 2.19.1 can now import and export USD files
Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.
Monday, December 16th, 2024
Master Designing Sci-Fi Props for Film
Discover how to create 3D designs that can be turned into physical movie props with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
Monday, December 16th, 2024
Nekki releases Cascadeur Mobile 1.2
New iPad and iPhone edition of Nekki's AI-assisted character animation software can now import and export data in FBX format.
Saturday, December 14th, 2024
Blender add-on ClayPencil turns 2D animation into 3D 'claymation'
Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.
Friday, December 13th, 2024
Chaos releases V-Ray 7 for SketchUp
SketchUp edition of the renderer gets support for 3D Gaussian Splats, luminaires for lighting, and new material override options.
Thursday, December 12th, 2024
Tutorial - Modeling for Film & TV: Hard-Surface Vehicles
Discover to create a truck model suitable for use in a VFX production pipeline with The Gnomon Workshop's best-practice guide.
Sunday, December 8th, 2024