Allegorithmic releases free parquet-creation tool
Use MakeIt A Parquet to create realistic floors in 3ds Max or Maya based on any type of wood grain.
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
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CGArena releases 300 free animal reference images
Download free-to-use hi-res images of our furred, feathered and scaly friends from their online library.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
Planetside Software releases Terragen 2.4
Free update marks first full outing for landscape generator's Animation Module, plus new fixes for GI flicker.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Renderfarm.fi adds support for Cycles
Free distributed online rendering service adds support for Blender's new raytrace render engine.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
xoio ships 24 free textures of bark, leaves, roads
Suitable for commercial work and complete with normal, bump, displacement and/or alpha maps.
Friday, April 6th, 2012
Download three free HD timelapse skies
Get free 1080p videos of skies for use as visualisation backdrops, each recorded by artist Marc Lorenz.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
Register for the free Houdini FLIP fluids webinar
Sign up for the free 30-minute session on Houdini 12's fluid simulation tools, held next month.
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
See Blur discuss the making of the Dragon Tattoo titles
Sign up for the free masterclass, held at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood this Thursday.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Test drive new professional networking site StudioVox
Try out the 'only social community to encompass creatives, agencies and industry' with our free beta code.
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
Gnomon ships 150-minute Alex Alvarez tutorial for free
Explore the creation process for the large-scale illustration pictured above in The Making of 'Gathering'.
Thursday, March 29th, 2012
Share your demo reel with recruiters via Showreel.tv
New site offers artists free online portfolio space and automated tools for applying for CG industry jobs.
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Sign up for bluegfx's free London ZBrush 4R3 event
See Climax and Framestore artists run through its new features at the Transport Museum on 19 April.
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Adobe releases free beta of Photoshop CS6
New UI, new OpenEXR capabilities, more speed - but will that Content Aware Move tool actually work?
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012