Get 20 free smoke plume and 10 dust wave FX clips
Download them in 2K resolution from new stock practical effects footage site ActionVFX. Licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
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Download Joost Vanhoutte's free textures and cutouts
Updated: Get 50 foliage cutouts, over 1,800 texture reference images, and 111 new free stone textures.
Sunday, July 10th, 2016
FurryBall RT 1.3 ships, adds new free 'Credit version'
Updated: Just logging in now gives you up 30 free hours of rendering a month, even for commercial jobs.
Thursday, July 7th, 2016
The Foundry ships Cara VR
Updated: New plugin toolset for Nuke aims to tackle key problems of creating virtual reality content. See the full feature set and pricing here.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2016
Get an inside guide to the art of The Force Awakens
Star Wars matte painter Nick Hiatt shares his secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus this Saturday. Watch free online.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows
Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
Laubwerk makes procedural plant kits available for Maya
1.0.20 update makes the render ready tree models compatible with Maya as well as 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Houdini.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Fabric Software releases Kraken 1.2
Open-source rigging system creates character rigs that work across Maya and Softimage. Now with faster biped rig setup.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
Download 500 free HDRIs from HDRI Skies
Updated: Neat set of free HDR sky images covers a range of times of day and weather. Also now includes a free 15K HDR.
Friday, June 17th, 2016
Get Chaos Group's free 60 page guide to GPU rendering
Download a PDF overview of key trends and best practices in GPU rendering. Targeted at V-Ray, but useful to anyone.
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
The Foundry releases Modo 10.1
Now shipping: Latest Modo 10 Series update adds cool procedural modelling system. Plays nicely with MeshFusion, too.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2016
AMD releases FireRender for 3ds Max
Updated: free OpenCL-based GPU-accelerated path tracing renderer now available in beta.
Tuesday, June 14th, 2016
Discover how Luma Pictures creates Marvel-ous VFX
The Ant-Man and Avengers veterans reveal their secrets at a free event at Gnomon's LA campus on Thursday. Watch free online.
Monday, June 13th, 2016