cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
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The 20 most popular Gnomon Workshop tutorials of 2020
Discover 20 video tutorials from the leading digital training firm that no CG artist can afford to miss.
Sunday, January 31st, 2021
Download five free loopable OpenVDB smoke animations
Get Between Two Pines' simulated jets of smoke or steam for use in your 3D scenes. Commercial use.
Sunday, January 31st, 2021
Autodesk ships Arnold 6.2
VFX production renderer gets new V-Ray-style light mixer, improved GPU rendering and USD support, and support for OpenColorIO 2.0.
Saturday, January 30th, 2021
WTools3D ships LWCAD 2020 for LightWave and Cinema 4D
Check out the new features in the latest update to the all-purprose hard surface modelling toolkit.
Friday, January 22nd, 2021
Get a free 43,200 x 21,600px displacement map of the Earth
Create detailed renders of the planet's surface from space with this huge free 16-bit texture map.
Thursday, January 21st, 2021
Sneak peek: Chaos Group's R&D work on V-Ray's VRayMtl
Video: see the new translucency in the standard V-Ray material, expected in V-Ray 5 Update 1.
Wednesday, January 20th, 2021
Download 10 free 3D scans of people (and a dog)
Get Renderbot's free scans of adults and children for use in commercial visualisation work.
Sunday, January 10th, 2021
AXYZ design ships anima 4.1
3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine crowd animation tool gets GPU decoding for faster playback on Nvidia graphics cards.
Wednesday, December 30th, 2020
Basefount releases Animcraft
Neat tool for building animation libraries retargets motion between characters from 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity and UE4.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini
See all the new features in the Houdini edition of renderer, from ACEScg to updates to VRayDirt.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2020.1 VS and RS
UV unwrapping tools' neat new TopoCopy system is 'first unique feature in UV mapping in years'.
Wednesday, December 16th, 2020
Autodesk releases 3ds Max 2021.3
Update to the 3D software adds new retopology tools and support for bloom effects in the viewport.
Thursday, December 3rd, 2020