Side Effects cuts Houdini educational pricing
Education edition now available to colleges for $75/year, and free to high schools and instructors.
Friday, July 15th, 2016
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Get 20 free smoke plume and 10 dust wave FX clips
Download them in 2K resolution from new stock practical effects footage site ActionVFX. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Download Joost Vanhoutte's free textures and cutouts
Updated: Get 50 foliage cutouts, over 1,800 texture reference images, and 111 new free stone textures.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows
Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2
Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies
Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.0
Open-source digital paint package gets cool new 2D animation toolset, with export to commercial apps.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Nukeygara updates free public beta of Akeytsu
Updated: Beta 3.0 of next-gen animation system adds new weight painting and editing tools for skinning characters.
Tuesday, May 31st, 2016
Get the new Substance plugin for Houdini
Allegorithmic's free add-on lets users edit textures in Substance format using Houdini's native tools.
Thursday, May 26th, 2016
Epic Games ships Daydream plugin for Unreal Engine 4
Support for Google's new mobile VR platform available already. Source code out now, binaries due in June.
Friday, May 20th, 2016
LuxRender 1.6 ships
Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016