D5 Render 1.9 ships
Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.
Friday, May 28th, 2021
HDRI
Get 500 free HDRI skies and environments from HDRMAPS
Get over 400 2,048 x 1,024px HDRIs as a single download, plus 100 more at 10,000 x 5,000px. Commercial use.
Thursday, May 13th, 2021
Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1
GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.
Tuesday, May 11th, 2021
Greyscalegorilla goes subscription-only
Greyscalegorilla Plus subs now give access to all of the firm's C4D plugins, resources and training.
Monday, April 26th, 2021
Master the essentials of lighting and look development
Recreate realistic real-world materials in Maya and Redshift with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Monday, March 15th, 2021
Chaos rolls out Chaos Cosmos
New online library of architectural 3D models is optimised for V-Ray and Chaos Vantage. Free to users of selected versions of V-Ray 5.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Get started with look development in Houdini
Take a crash course in look dev for VFX and animation with The Gnomon Workshop's latest tutorial.
Monday, February 15th, 2021
Download over 70 free 16K HDRIs for commercial use
Download free 16,384 x 8,192px HDRIs of interior and exterior environments from iHDRI.com.
Sunday, January 10th, 2021
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
MakeHDR creates HDRIs inside Nuke, Fusion or Natron
New plugin merges images into HDRIs inside OpenFX compositing apps. Free for resolutions up to 2K.
Tuesday, October 6th, 2020
Master 3D scan integration techniques for visual effects
New Gnomon tutorial reveals how to clean 3D scan data to integrate with a photographic backplate.
Monday, September 14th, 2020
Lightmap releases Blender plugin for HDR Light Studio
New 'Xenon' update makes the real-time lighting tool available to Blender users for the first time.
Tuesday, September 8th, 2020
Superluminal ships Stardust 1.6 for After Effects
Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020