Alexey Vanzhula makes Flux available for free
Get the neat real-time Boolean and retopology toolset for Houdini free. Works in Maya and Cinema 4D via Houdini Engine.
Friday, November 23rd, 2018
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Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Download neat new free camera matching tool fSpy
Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.
Wednesday, November 21st, 2018
Download a free 8K aerial HDRI from HDRI Hub
Shot above the clouds for use when rendering aircraft. EXR format, 8,192 x 4,096px in size.
Sunday, November 18th, 2018
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free 7-hour Venom VFX training course
Free video tutorials reveal how to recreate everyone's favourite alien symbiote in 3ds Max and V-Ray. Includes project files.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.16
Free game engine gets new Simple Motion component for assigning motion clips to characters, plus support for MikkT tangent space.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15.2
Free update extends support for OpenFX plugins in the new Fusion toolset, adds Beauty plugin for smoothing skin.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
QuadSpinner open-sources entire Vue portfolio
Download over 100 free materials, MetaNodes and atmospheres for e-on's landscape-generation app.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21
Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Quixel releases Quixel Bridge 2018.5
Free app for exporting Megascans assets to other software gets live links to 3ds Max, Houdini, Toolbag.
Thursday, November 8th, 2018
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.0
Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.
Wednesday, November 7th, 2018
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer for Cinema 4D Beta 2
Update adds node-based material editor, new skin and hair shaders, automated conversion of C4D and V-Ray materials.
Monday, November 5th, 2018