Download Viz-People's HDRi v1 collection for free
Get ten 12,000px x 5,800px spherical HDRs taken at different times of day, each with its own tonemapped PNG.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
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Download five free 4K light probes in EXR format
Check out Illuminated Tools' new set of free hi-res HDRIs. All are licensed for commercial use.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Download 12 free cutout people from VIShopper
High-resolution, supplied in PSD format with separate shadow layers and licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion 7 for free
No optical flow or stereo tools, and no network rendering, but still a pretty darn powerful 3D compositor.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Download free spherical HDRIs from Panocapture
Get three 16k x 8k City Dusk panoramas in HDR format, plus 23 accompanying backplate images.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Trimble ships SketchUp 2015
Now fully 64-bit, and there's no longer any need to buy separate licences for Windows and Mac.
Thursday, November 6th, 2014
Sketchfab now lets you download 3D models
Make your own files available to all, or download free models from HTC, Microsoft and the British Museum.
Friday, October 31st, 2014
Quixel releases Quixel Suite
Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
The Foundry to launch free edition of Nuke Studio
Non-watermarked, non-commercial version of the software to replace Nuke PLE early in the new year.
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Autodesk software now free to schools worldwide
3ds Max, Maya, et al now free to colleges worldwide, as well as individual students and teachers.
Friday, October 10th, 2014
Gnomon releases Maya Viewport 2.0 and Shader FX
Eric Keller's five-hour DVD provides a complete guide to Maya 2015's powerful real-time previews.
Friday, October 10th, 2014
Adobe adds neat free video editor to its iOS app line-up
Premiere Clip provides nifty mobile editing toolset. New Shape CC and Brush CC apps for illustrators, too.
Thursday, October 9th, 2014
Download a Maya character rig from Hotel Transylvania
Sony Pictures Animation releases a free simplified version of one of the zombie rigs used on the movie.
Wednesday, October 8th, 2014