The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists

Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.

Friday, December 21st, 2018

Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender

Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018

cebas ships finalRender Drop 2

Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.

Thursday, December 6th, 2018

Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here

Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Quixel ships Quixel Mixer 2018.2

Intuitive app for blending scanned materials gets new Eye Dropper tool, better straight line painting.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4

Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.

Thursday, October 25th, 2018

Adobe ships Dimension CC 2.0

Designer-friendly 3D software gets support for layered decals, FBX and STL import, interactive web export for design reviews and AR.

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018

Gravity Sketch releases Gravity Sketch VR 1.5

Promising virtual reality design tool gets support for groups, surface patches and orthographic views.

Friday, September 7th, 2018

SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins

Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.

Monday, August 6th, 2018

PlaySys ships Real HDR

Interesting new tool lets you place light sources on a 2D canvas to create your own synthetic HDRIs. Works in 32-bit linear colour space.

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

Get Allan McKay's free eight-hour plasma VFX tutorial

VFX supervisor's new free training course comes with full project files in MAX, FBX and Alembic formats.

Thursday, May 31st, 2018

Black Friday and winter 2017 deals for CG artists

Updated with discounts valid until the New Year, including Affinity Photo and Marmoset Toolbag.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017