Krita team releases stable beta of Krita 2.9
Open source paint app gets new Liquify tool, new colour selector, better PSD and RAW file handling.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
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Download NoEmotion's 150 free 15,000 x 7,000px HDRs
Pick from 150 ultra-hi-res spherical HDRs, licensed for commercial use. Don't download them all at once!
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Exocortex open sources Exocortex Crate
Suite of Alembic tools for 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, Arnold and Python now available under GPL3 licence.
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Get Ahmed Shalaby's free Shiko 3ds Max character rig
Download this stretchy, stylised rig from the Egyptian character TD. Comes with face and body controls.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.7
Free app for mashing up 3D models gets new tools for analysing meshes before 3D printing them.
Monday, December 1st, 2014
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2014
See the best real-time 3D models uploaded to the website this month: from Salarians to Sherman tanks.
Thursday, November 27th, 2014
OLM Digital releases Color Key and Distance Gradation
Free After Effects plugins speed up keying and creation of glow effects, particularly for 2D animation work.
Wednesday, November 26th, 2014
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
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