Get 25 free cutout people and 25 free sky backgrounds
Download Kaiserbold's free photographic resources. Various resolutions; skies licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, February 10th, 2019
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Download 100 free high-res HDRIs from HDRMAPS
Mainly exterior scenes, provided in EXR format at 10,000 x 5,000px resolution. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
iToo Software ships Forest Pack 6.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin adds option to edit distribution and colour of objects during interactive renders.
Friday, February 1st, 2019
Intel releases open-source denoiser Open Image Denoise
New render denoising system is CPU-based, AI-driven, hardware-agnostic. See it in action here.
Thursday, January 31st, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer for free
Next-gen material creation tool is now available to download for free during its beta. Will become a $99 perpetual licence on final release.
Wednesday, January 30th, 2019
Get games careers advice from Halo 5 creator 343 Industries
Get career tips and showreel advice at Gnomon's free event for aspiring games artists next week.
Tuesday, January 29th, 2019
Download Maxviz's Interactive Tools for 3ds Max for free
Starbreeze Studios artist Maxi Vazquez's neat free 3ds Max scripts speed up common modelling tasks.
Monday, January 28th, 2019
Check out new open-source VFX render manager OpenCue
Heavyweight tool is based on Sony Pictures Imageworks' in-house tech and backed by Google Cloud.
Friday, January 25th, 2019
LuxCoreRender 2.1 ships
Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.
Monday, January 21st, 2019
Download free cross-platform 3D file viewer MadView3D
Lightweight 3D model viewer has some neat display options - and runs on a unique set of platforms.
Sunday, January 20th, 2019
Neat free tool Origami creates low-poly geometry inside Nuke
Handy add-on creates patches or scatter objects from hi-res models; rebuilds point cloud scan data.
Friday, January 18th, 2019
Download the free beta of Jet Fluids for Cinema 4D
Try Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's new C4D fluids add-on for free while it is in early development.
Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Hear The Third Floor discuss the future of visualisation
Discover new trends in previs and postvis at the legendary studio's free talk at Gnomon on 24 January. Watch free online.
Friday, January 11th, 2019