Free non-commercial version of FurryBall ships
Get the free version of the GPU renderer for Max, Maya and C4D. Not watermarked, but capped at full HD.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
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cebas updates thinkingParticles 6
Updated: First 'Subscription Drop' extends volumeBreak node and new procedural spline modelling toolset.
Sunday, December 21st, 2014
Download 12 free furniture models and 10 tree models
Get Andrei Mikhalenko's beautiful 3D models in MAX and OBJ formats, licensed for commercial use.
Thursday, December 18th, 2014
Watch Allan McKay's videos on building custom FX tools
VFX supervisor's three-part training series includes five hours of video, plus all the MAX files and scripts.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
Exocortex open sources Exocortex Crate
Suite of Alembic tools for 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and Python now available under GPL3 licence.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.0 for 3ds Max SP1
Lots of new features for a service pack, including support for hair, SSS and Light Caches in V-Ray RT GPU.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
e-on software releases CloudFactory Ozone 2015
Atmosphere-creation plugin gets new name, compatibility with Cinema 4D R16, but not much else.
Thursday, December 4th, 2014
Download 33 tree models free for commercial use
Updated: Get a range of tree models in MAX and/or OBJ formats from artist Krzysztof Czerwiński's blog.
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014
Get Ahmed Shalaby's free Shiko 3ds Max character rig
Download this stretchy, stylised rig from the Egyptian character TD. Comes with face and body controls.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
Marius Silaghi releases Deformation Cleaner
Neat 3ds Max modifier cleans up bad deformations on animated models without losing mesh detail.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Allan McKay launches free VFX careers podcasts
Updated: Get free careers advice from the VFX supervisor - including how to succeed at job interviews.
Friday, November 14th, 2014
The extraordinary making of David Levy's PLUG
Updated: The Prometheus concept artist's VFX short turns Terminator's story on its head. Watch it here.
Tuesday, October 28th, 2014