Lightmap releases Blender plugin for HDR Light Studio

New 'Xenon' update makes the real-time lighting tool available to Blender users for the first time.

Tuesday, September 8th, 2020

Download Cinema 4D painting add-on 4D Paint for free

Get Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's handy real-time projection painting add-on free for Cinema 4D R20+.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Superluminal ships Stardust 1.6 for After Effects

Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Chaos Group releases Project Lavina Beta 0.4

New tool for real-time ray traced previews of V-Ray scenes gets new animation editor, physical camera.

Thursday, July 9th, 2020

Pulze ships Scene Manager 1.6

Streamline the process of lighting and rendering scenes in 3ds Max with this powerful workflow tool for visualization and illustration work.

Monday, May 25th, 2020

Discover 10 key artist features in V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max

Read our pick of the features in the public beta, from the new LightMix system to out-of-core rendering.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

Maxon ships Cinema 4D S22

First subscriber-only update to Cinema 4D overhauls the UV unwrapping tools and rolls out Maxon's new viewport architecture.

Tuesday, April 21st, 2020

Luxion ships KeyShot 9.2

Update adds support for sharing GPU memory via NVLink in the new GPU render engine, plus optimised new Transparent Medium material.

Monday, April 6th, 2020

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Tungsten Drop 4

Check out the changes to the presets system in the latest update to the real-time lighting design tool.

Friday, April 3rd, 2020

Download 37 free 3D models from 3D Model Haven

Get free props and environment models in FBX and Blender format with PBR textures. CC0 licence.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2020

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021

Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2020

Get Allan McKay's free 15-hour The Shores VFX course

Create a building destruction shot in 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD with this new video training course.

Thursday, February 27th, 2020

Download 40 free Viz-People photographic cutout people

Get varied photographic cutouts of people for use in visualisation work. PNG format, for commercial use.

Sunday, February 16th, 2020