Download 44 free 14MP HDRs of industrial environments
New website HDR Vault offers 14MP spherical HDRs of industrial and public spaces under a CC0 licence.
Sunday, November 12th, 2017
HDR
Reallusion ships PopcornFX iClone particle plugin
Real-time animation tool gets particle add-on based on tech for Substance Painter particle brushes.
Thursday, November 2nd, 2017
Autodesk ships Flame 2018.3
Fourth update to Flame this year adds 360° viewing mode for VR, new Motion Warp tracking system, improved waveform monitoring.
Friday, October 27th, 2017
Adobe ships Dimension CC
Videos: Check out this intuitive new V-Ray powered rendering and compositing tool, targeted at 'graphic designers, not 3D experts'.
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
E-on ships Vue Infinite 2016 R3 and Vue xStream R3
Free quarterly update to the digital nature tools speeds up saving, extends the new Path Tracer render engine.
Saturday, August 12th, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7
Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
Get a free 16,000px HDRI every week from HDRI Haven
Download the first of artist Greg Zaal's free hi-res HDRIs today, showing an exterior scene at night. Commercial use.
Sunday, June 11th, 2017
Download 12 free HDR images of industrial environments
Get Philip Modin's 14-megapixel HDRs of factories and workshops. EXR format, for commercial use.
Sunday, June 4th, 2017
Render Legion ships Corona Renderer 1.6 for 3ds Max
Update to renderer adds new standalone image editor for EXRs, improves sampling, relighting and distributed rendering.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Reallusion releases Character Creator 2.0
Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.15
Update improves texture streaming and tonemapping, adds support for Nintendo Switch and HDR displays.
Thursday, February 16th, 2017
Allegorithmic releases Substance Designer 6
Big update adds new tools for recreating real-world materials via photogrammetry, 32-bit workflow, 8K texture baking.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2017
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.1.2
Updated: Open-source painting app gets early support for audio in the new 2D animation toolset.
Saturday, February 11th, 2017