Master VFX workflows for games in Unreal Engine

Riot Games artist Jeremy Griffith's detailed Gnomon tutorial provides over nine hours of UE4 training.

Friday, June 22nd, 2018

Foundry ships Modo 12.1

Varied update adds new integrated VR viewport, new hard-surface animation options, improved modelling and UV packing tools.

Thursday, June 21st, 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

Pixologic ships ZBrush 2018.1

Free patch improves speed and stability when sculpting in ZBrush; adds a few new workflow features.

Thursday, June 21st, 2018

Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo

Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Google open-sources Seurat

Updated: Free tech converts offline renders to 3D geometry for use in mobile VR. Has exporters for Maya, Unity, UE4 - and now 3ds Max.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

WTools3D ships LWCAD 2018

Powerful procedural modelling plugin for LightWave gets new toolsets for automatically generating windows and railings.

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Get SideFX's free Sketchfab Uploader for Houdini

New free add-on lets artists export 3D models to their Sketchfab portfolios directly inside Houdini.

Monday, June 18th, 2018

Videos: the best of Siggraph 2018's technical papers

See our pick of the show's hottest research - from AI-driven animation to amazing simulation techniques.

Thursday, June 14th, 2018

Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2019.1

Update improves Alembic support and performance of OSL shaders; adds new Projects toolbar plus helper tools for Fluids simulations.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

Anastasiy releases MagicSquire 2.7

Neat Photoshop brush organisation plugin's 'Magic Eraser' system turns any brush into an eraser and back.

Wednesday, June 13th, 2018

Foundry ships Mari 4.1

Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018

Sneak peek: rendering Corona materials in V-Ray for 3ds Max

Upcoming V-Ray Next hotfix to let users render Corona materials directly and convert common Corona textures.

Tuesday, June 12th, 2018