Free tool Kiko ports animation curves from Maya to Nuke
Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.
Sunday, September 16th, 2018
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Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Epic Games releases free Shotgun integration for UE4
New plugin integrates UE4 with the production-tracking system. Includes a Maya FBX exporter for asset review.
Friday, August 31st, 2018
SideFX ships Houdini Reality Capture plugin as free beta
New photogrammetry plugin lets artists use RealityCapture's popular toolset directly inside Houdini.
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Discover how Epic Games designed Fortnite
Discover the game's art workflows at a free event at Gnomon's Hollywood campus next week. Watch free online.
Tuesday, August 21st, 2018
Blender Foundation launches Blender Benchmark
See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.
Monday, August 20th, 2018
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
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