Sketchfab's models of the month: February 2021
See the past month's best real-time 3D assets, including this ingenious 45-second animated CG short.
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2021
commercial use
Download free UV packing tool UV-Packer for Blender
New Blender edition of 3d-io's popular 3ds Max plugin optimises UV packing of complex models.
Monday, March 1st, 2021
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Get a free 46,080 x 23,040px displacement map of the Moon
Download this detailed free texture map to recreate the lunar surface in 3D. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Download 8 free aerial sets of cutout photographic people
Get VIShopper's free cutout bird's-eye views of people for use in arch viz and CG work. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 7th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: January 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D assets, from a NASA-inspired mech to free car and creature models.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
cebas releases thinkingParticles 6.10
GPU-accelerated spectral renderer finalRender now bundled with the 3ds Max particle plugin for free.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 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
Download 500 free stock FX elements from ProductionCrate
Get free explosions, smoke and energy effects clips. ProRes format, HD resolution, for commercial use.
Sunday, January 17th, 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
Download over 70 free 16K HDRIs for commercial use
Download free 16,384 x 8,192px HDRIs of interior and exterior environments from iHDRI.com.
Sunday, January 10th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: December 2020
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free game assets to a striking 3D portrait of Lou Reed.
Monday, January 4th, 2021
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2020.3b
New free beta of the promising physics and AI-based animation tool adds an auto-keying system.
Tuesday, December 22nd, 2020