Allegorithmic ships free Substance plugin for C4D
Import procedural materials in Substance format into any edition of the software except Cinema 4D Lite.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
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Get Allan McKay's free 10-hour course on ash FX
Download 10 hours of video on creating production-ready FX in 3ds Max, thinkingParticles and FumeFX, with project files.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2015
Otoy releases OctaneVR
Updated: Get a free three-month trial of Otoy's renderer for VR content, plus Blender and Poser plugins.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Get 35 free Photoshop plugins for CG artists
Get Richard Rosenman's handy set of particles, fractal and video effects add-ons, all newly updated to 64-bit.
Monday, April 27th, 2015
3Dflow releases 3DF Zephyr Lite
University of Verona spin-off ships new $199 image-based modelling tool with built-in Sketchfab export.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Visual Studio partners Unity, Unreal, Cocos2d engines
Microsoft's free IDE will co-install with all three game engines, along with bonus add-ons.
Monday, April 20th, 2015
Nuke Non-Commercial is now free to download
All the toolsets of Nuke Studio, but limited to HD output. Check out what you can and can't do with it here.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
Download the assets from Epic Games' UE4 Kite demo
Free Open World Demo Collection asset pack includes 42 rock and tree meshes, 138 hi-res textures.
Friday, April 10th, 2015
Kolor releases Autopano 4.0
Heavy-duty image-stitching software gets new colour-correction engine, HiDPI support, better anti-ghosting.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Mercenaries Engineering ships Guerilla Render 1.3
Production-proven look dev and rendering system gets big update. One seat free for commercial use.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Side Effects releases beta of Houdini Engine for UE4
Updated: New plugin for using Houdini content inside Unreal Engine 4 now available for testing.
Friday, April 3rd, 2015
Pixar makes RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Use for tools development is fine too. Ships with Maya and Katana plugins; Houdini and C4D to come.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015
DNA Research ships 3Delight for 3ds Max 2.0
RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.
Thursday, March 19th, 2015