Download SideFX's free Physics Painter tool for Houdini
Neat free tool lets you scatter objects across a terrain and have them settle naturally under the influence of gravity.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
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Sign up for free masterclases on Unreal Engine for VFX
Discover best practices for pipeline development and rendering in UE4 at Gnomon on 20 January 2018. Watch free online.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads
Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Isotropix shakes up pricing for Clarisse
Floating licences of the 2D/3D renderer down $299. Command line edition CRender discontinued.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
The GIMP Team releases GIMP 2.9.8
Open-source image editing tool gets support for on-canvas gradient editing, improved PSD import.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2017.3
New particle shading options, plus updates to the Cinemachine, 360° video and lightmap baking toolsets.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2018 v2
Real-time visualisation tool gets support for VR controllers, new quality-boosting Overdraw mode.
Friday, December 15th, 2017
Shotgun Software releases Shotgun 7.6
Cloud-based production tracking system gets new Production Insights toolset for visualising analytics data.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Get Allan McKay's free 10-hour 'Decay' VFX training course
Recreate a horrific face-melting effect with this set of detailed training videos and full project files.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
WTools3D releases LWCAD 5.5
LightWave modelling plugin gets neat new procedural tools for roofs and stairs. C4D and Max versions officially no longer 'Lite' editions.
Monday, December 11th, 2017
Discover Aaron Sims Creative's 'sketch to screen' workflow
See ASC deconstruct its work on movies like Wonder Woman at a free talk at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Thursday, December 7th, 2017