Sign up for free masterclases on Unreal Engine for VFX
Discover best practices for pipeline development and rendering in UE4 at Gnomon on 20 January 2018. Watch free online.
Tuesday, December 26th, 2017
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See the top five new features in Lumberyard in 2017
Read Amazon's list of key changes to its free AAA game engine, plus our pick of the best of the rest.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Eric Mootz makes all Mootzoid plugins free downloads
Get powerful particle and fluid simulation tools for Softimage, Maya, Modo and C4D for free.
Sunday, December 24th, 2017
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Unity
Powerful GPU-based renderer now available for viewport and offline renders in Unity. Free on one GPU.
Monday, December 18th, 2017
Download SideFX's free Skinning Converter for Houdini
Neat free tool turns the output of sims to lightweight bone-based animations to use in game engines.
Thursday, December 14th, 2017
Get Allan McKay's free 10-hour 'Decay' VFX training course
Recreate a horrific face-melting effect with this set of detailed training videos and full project files.
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017
Discover Aaron Sims Creative's 'sketch to screen' workflow
See ASC deconstruct its work on movies like Wonder Woman at a free talk at Gnomon next week. Watch free online.
Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin
Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Download over 200 free kitbash and layout models
Constantin Paschou's amazing TFMStyle asset pack ranges from machine parts to entire buildings. OBJ format.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Download 45 free explosion SFX from ActionVFX
Get 45 sound clips of fireballs, dirt explosions and breaking glass, plus 15 free fractured glass textures.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Get 21 free hard-surface alphas for ZBrush and Substance
Download Dan Rožański's handy free alpha masks for creating bolts, pipes, valves, vents and panelling.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017
Sketchfab's models of the month: November 2017
See the month's best real-time models, like this bust by Firaxis Games lead character artist Matthew Kean.
Friday, December 1st, 2017
Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 2017.4
Texture painting app gets support for layer instancing, live link to UE4 and 20 new procedural materials.
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017