Abvent ships Artlantis 2020
Architectural renderer gets new image denoiser, light portal system, more types of 3D grass, and RAL colour presets to mimic real paints.
Tuesday, November 19th, 2019
Epic Games
Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free
Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Epic Games acquires Quixel
All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.
Tuesday, November 12th, 2019
Download Epic Games' new free Infinity Blade asset packs
Get five packs of environment assets from the iOS fighting games for use in Unreal Engine projects.
Thursday, October 31st, 2019
Download Maya hair plugin Shave and a Haircut 9.6 free
Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
AMD to pay $120,000/year towards Blender development
CPU and GPU firm's sponsorship will help to fund Vulkan support within the open-source 3D tool.
Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019
Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund
GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.
Monday, October 7th, 2019
Download 27 free game-ready movement animations
Get Hammerhead's free walk, run and jump animations as FBX files or a complete Unreal Engine project.
Sunday, October 6th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.23
Unreal Engine-based real-time visualisation platform gets native support for Cinema 4D, IFC files.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23
Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2019
Peregrine Labs ships Yeti 3.5
Sizeable update to the Maya fur and feathers plugin adds support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, plus new volumetric hair guide model.
Wednesday, August 21st, 2019
Epic Games releases free TwinMotion update
Real-time visualisation software gets new SketchUp live link, plus 25 new readymade grass assets.
Monday, August 19th, 2019
Eye candy: SideFX's 2019 Houdini customer reel
Check out the best new movies, ads and cinematics created using Houdini, then follow our links to the VFX breakdowns.
Monday, July 29th, 2019