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
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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
Visit Gnomon's free Making of Star Citizen event
Discover the design secrets of the popular space MMO at the school's Hollywood HQ tomorrow, 26 March.
Wednesday, March 25th, 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
E-on software releases LumenRT VIZ for free
New non-commercial edition gives SketchUp users free access to e-on's real-time rendering system.
Thursday, March 12th, 2015
Download 18 free HDRIs from BoCo Studio
Download a set of ultra-hi-res panoramic HDRI exteriors, all licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
Gnomon to host free event on the making of Big Hero 6
Discover how Disney created the Oscar-winning animated feature at Gnomon's Hollywood HQ on Thursday 19 March.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
BUF to release complete in-house set of VFX tools
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Nvidia releases PhysX source code on GitHub
Get the full C++ source of the top game physics system, including the clothing and destruction libraries.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Marmoset unveils Marmoset Viewer for Toolbag 2
New WebGL exporter will let artists share 3D models in a web browser, with physically based shading.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Our new Source 2 engine will be free, says Valve
Successor to the engine used on Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 will be 'free to content developers'.
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015
Unity launches new free Unity 5 Personal Edition
Artists earning under $100,000/year now get all the features of Unity 5. Pro users get extra cloud tools.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015