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

Luxion unveils KeyShot 3.1

Update to the real-time rendering tool to add new metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing.

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 3.0

New version of real-time custom HDR design tool gains new blending modes and falloff controls.

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

HDR Labs ships sIBL_GUI 4.0

Free tool for creating 'Smart IBL' setups for faster HDR renders gets new UI and performance boost.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Get free models from the 3D World web 'advent calendar'

Not to mention free textures, HDRIs and training. Download a new set each day from the mag's website.

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Get 20 free cutout people from Pixel Flakes

Visualisation agency releases set of free stock characters with shadow templates for use in design work.

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

FilterForge 3.0 ships

Procedural texture-generation tool emerges from long period in beta with support for multiple source images, new preview options.

Tuesday, November 15th, 2011

Q&A: David Lesperance, environment sculptor

Sculpting isn't just for characters, says the Blizzard veteran: it's there for everything from trees to rubble.

Monday, November 7th, 2011

See the best videos created using Project Photofly

Watch our pick of the work created using Autodesk's neat new online image-based modelling service.

Friday, September 2nd, 2011

HDR Light Studio Pro gets new KeyShot plug-in

Design lighting set-ups inside KeyShot in real time, then export the results as a custom HDR file.

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

Review: V-Ray 2.0

Jason Lewis takes the 3ds Max plug-in renderer's new materials, stereo options and GPU-accelerated preview for a test drive.

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Beta test Filter Forge 3.0 and get the software free

Spot five bugs or more in the Photoshop texture plug-in and net a copy of Filter Forge 3.0 Professional.

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

Shade 12 now shipping

Dark horse all-round 3D package gets new UI plus some cool tools like built-in image-based modelling.

Tuesday, March 8th, 2011