Nvidia open-sources MDL
SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.
Friday, August 17th, 2018
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Epic Games ships free MotionBuilder Live Link for UE4
Free plugin streams mocap data from MotionBuilder to preview it inside Unreal Engine in real time.
Thursday, August 16th, 2018
Try V-Ray Cloud for free
Now in open beta: push-button cloud render service lets you launch jobs directly inside 3ds Max or Maya. Free for a limited time.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15
Now officially released: grading and editing app gets over 250 compositing tools from Fusion.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance for 3ds Max 2.0
Free plugin for editing Substance materials in 3ds Max now supports animation and network rendering.
Friday, August 10th, 2018
SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
Download Grzegorz Baran's 16 spherical 8K HDRIs for free
Use the Ubisoft environment artist's discount code to get his new 360 HDRI Panorama Pack 01 for free.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Sculpt your own Ant-Man with Gnomon's ZBrush masterclass
Learn creature sculpting from the pros at Gnomon's ZBrush Sunday event on 29 July. Watch free online.
Sunday, July 22nd, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20
UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.
Saturday, July 21st, 2018
3Dflow ships 3DF Zephyr 4.0
Big update to image-based modelling tool improves speed and accuracy of mesh generation, adds new camera calibration manger.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2018
Download Kungfujackrabbit Studio's 25 free HDRIs
Get 25 synthetic HDRIs for use in product renders. 10,000 x 5,000px resolution, for commercial use.
Sunday, July 15th, 2018
Pixologic ships ZBrushCore 2018
Free update to ZBrush's cut-down edition adds new VDM brushes, Gizmo3D deformers and 3D text.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
Download Disney's data set for Motunui island from Moana
Explore the actual production data, now available for research and testing. OBJ format, Ptex textures.
Wednesday, July 4th, 2018