Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
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Adobe releases free trial version of Substance Alchemist
Upcoming material-creation tool now free to all, not just people with existing Substance subscriptions.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link
Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 4.9
Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019.2
Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Download Jaakko Saari's free fabric generator
Free Substance generates custom cloth materials inside Substance Designer or Substance Painter.
Sunday, July 21st, 2019
First release candidate for Blender 2.80 now available
The almost-final version of the long-awaited major update to Blender is now free to download.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Design Connected releases Connecter 1.7
Free standalone 3D asset browser with tight links to 3ds Max and Cinema 4D adds support for Substance materials.
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Quixel ships Bridge 2019.2
VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX.
Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
Download free texture de-lighting tool Agisoft De-Lighter
Handy standalone tool removes baked-in shadows from textures generated via photogrammetry.
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Download four new free Renderpeople 3D characters
Includes an animated male figure and two rigged female figures. Multiple common 3D formats; for commercial use.
Monday, July 8th, 2019
Get Alex Senechal's five free 10,000 x 5,000px studio HDRIs
Download five high-resolution synthetic HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups, for use in portfolio work.
Sunday, July 7th, 2019