Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library

New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender

Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

RandomControl ships Maverick Studio and Indie 2021.6

GPU renderers for visualisation and portfolio work get versatile object scattering and instancing system.

Tuesday, December 21st, 2021

Escape Motions releases Rebelle 5

Updated: Natural media painting app gets new $19.99 Rebelle 5 Personal edition for portfolio work.

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Master cinematic production techniques in Unreal Engine

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create game cinematic's using UE4's Sequencer.

Monday, December 20th, 2021

Download 22 free Megascans 3D trees for Unreal Engine

Get 22 models of black alders in .uasset format with LODs and 8k textures from the new Megascans Trees range.

Sunday, December 19th, 2021

iToo Software releases RailClone 5 for 3ds Max

Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.

Friday, December 17th, 2021

Adobe ships After Effects 22.1

Compositing software gets Universal Text Engine for titling and motion graphics. New Extended Viewport for 3D work now in beta.

Thursday, December 16th, 2021

Download the new free Unreal Live Link for Maya

Free tool for streaming animation between Maya and UE4 now supports facial blendshape data.

Wednesday, December 15th, 2021

Foundry ships Katana 5.0

Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Autodesk ships RV 2022

VFX image viewer and playback system gets support for new open standard OpenTimelineIO. Sales of perpetual licences discontinued.

Tuesday, December 14th, 2021

Create art-directable building demolition FX in Houdini

New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.

Monday, December 13th, 2021

See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender

New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.

Monday, December 13th, 2021