Motiva ships Layama 1.5
Datasmith creator's unusual tool for turning 3ds Max, Blender and UE4 scenes into 'pseudo VR' gets new option to add interactive hotspots.
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
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Godot 3.3 ships
Unexpectedly major update to the game engine adds a new web editor, new CPU lightmapper, and native support for Apple's M1 chips.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
Download 85 free meshes of Australian trees and rocks
Get Andrew Svanberg Hamilton's Rural Australia scan-based assets free for use with Unreal Engine.
Sunday, April 25th, 2021
Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos
Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Epic Games launches MetaHuman Creator
Hotly tipped next-gen character creator now free in early access, along with 50 sample characters.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.1
First commercial release of the unusual physics-based animation app adds neat new Auto Physics tool. Still free to indie users, too.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
Nvidia announces pricing and new plugins for Omniverse
Studios will pay to use the hotly tipped open collaboration system, but individual artists can use it free.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
LuxCoreRender 2.5 and BlendLuxCore 2.5 ship
Wide-ranging update to the open-source renderer and its Blender plugin adds RTX acceleration, new stereo cameras.
Monday, April 12th, 2021
Get 1,000+ free 3D models of objects from Polish museums
Download 3D models of sculptures and household objects under a CC0 licence. Formats include OBJ, glTF and Blender.
Sunday, April 11th, 2021
Get Volume 2 of Epic's Virtual Production Field Guide for free
Free 158-page PDF provides an overview of new workflows and job opportunities in virtual production.
Tuesday, April 6th, 2021
Sketchfab's models of the month: March 2021
See the month's best real-time 3D models, from free 3D scanned environments to dogs in frog suits.
Thursday, April 1st, 2021
Download the new free materials on Substance Source
Get 25 free scan-based procedural materials of natural environments and debris, all in .sbsar format.
Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021