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Sunday, November 30th, 2014
HDRI
Download five free 4K light probes in EXR format
Check out Illuminated Tools' new set of free hi-res HDRIs. All are licensed for commercial use.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Download free spherical HDRIs from Panocapture
Get three 16k x 8k City Dusk panoramas in HDR format, plus 23 accompanying backplate images.
Monday, November 10th, 2014
Knald Technologies releases Lys in open beta
Cool new tool converts HDR files between formats and generates specular and irradiance textures.
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Download a free 8K HDRI of Pixar's campus
Light your scenes with a 32-bit HDR of Pixar's Emeryville HQ - complete with its giant model of Luxo Jr.
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
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
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
Lightmap ships LightWave plugin for HDR Light Studio
LightWave3D Live Connection lets users create HDRIs in real time, and see the results in LightWave's VPR.
Tuesday, February 25th, 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 a free 16,000 x 8,000 HDRI file
Get Michał Jaszowski's ultra-hi-res sIBL package of a sunny winter landscape from his Full Frame site.
Friday, May 3rd, 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