How to spot a bad HDRI
Updated with new video: Hyperfocal Design's Jay Weston explains how to spot and fix duff HDR image files.
Friday, May 16th, 2014
HDR
Download two free timelapse HDRI sky domes
Updated with new timelapse: get two 1,024 x 512 sample timelapse skies from Hyperfocal Design.
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Download free hi-res HDR files from HDRMAPS
Updated: Now including a complete free 8K sIBL of a country road, licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
The Foundry ships Mari 2.6
Good update for games artists adds physically correct shading, layered GLSL shaders, in-viewport IBL.
Friday, April 4th, 2014
Download a free HDR image set from HDRI Hub
Get an sIBL image set of a city by night. Licensed for commercial use, and good for automotive renders.
Monday, February 17th, 2014
Download three free HDRIs from Ten24's 3D Scan Store
Two exteriors and one useful studio interior, all captured at 10,000 x 5,000 and licensed for commercial use.
Monday, January 20th, 2014
Download 13 free 8K HDR panoramas
Artist Mark Curtis releases a set of very nice hi-res HDR images, all licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013
Quixel ships dDo 5.0
'Mega update' to Photoshop texturing tool adds Marmoset Skyshop HDR rendering, unlimited triangle count.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
Lagoa.com adds support for hair rendering
Cloud render service now lets users upload hair data in ASE format. Check out some amazing images.
Tuesday, May 14th, 2013
OpenEXR 2.0 released
Update to the open-source HDR file format should finally make deep compositing available in most tools.
Thursday, April 11th, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
19lights ships Ginger HDR
HDR tonemapping plugin for After Effects and Premiere now officially available for Windows and OS X.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2012
Luxion unveils KeyShot 3.1
Update to the real-time rendering tool to add new metallic paint material, interactive HDR editing.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2012