Get Allan McKay's free 15-hour The Shores VFX course
Create a building destruction shot in 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD with this new video training course.
Thursday, February 27th, 2020
HDRI
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Get Alex Senechal's five free 10,000 x 5,000px studio HDRIs
Download five high-resolution synthetic HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups, for use in portfolio work.
Sunday, July 7th, 2019
Get Allan McKay's free Thanos VFX video training course
Destroy the Avengers antihero using 3ds Max, tyFlow and Phoenix FD in this epic set of free tutorials.
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019
BrioVR lets you build VR and AR scenes in your browser
New cloud-based platform lets users turn standard 3D models into interactive VR and AR experiences.
Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Chaos Group launches Chaos Research
New blue sky research initiative to explore 'less clumsy' ways to create CG images via machine learning.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
Download 100 free high-res HDRIs from HDRMAPS
Mainly exterior scenes, provided in EXR format at 10,000 x 5,000px resolution. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 3rd, 2019
The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.9 for Blender and 3ds Max
3ds Max edition now shipping: tool for converting 3D scenes to WebGL apps gets HDR render pipeline.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
cebas ships finalRender Drop 2
Update to 3ds Max renderer improves path tracing speed, adds new 'biasHybrid' render mode, HDRI denoising, random walk SSS.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Download a free 8K aerial HDRI from HDRI Hub
Shot above the clouds for use when rendering aircraft. EXR format, 8,192 x 4,096px in size.
Sunday, November 18th, 2018
Quixel ships Quixel Mixer 2018.2
Intuitive app for blending scanned materials gets new Eye Dropper tool, better straight line painting.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio Carbon Drop 4
Real-time lighting design tool gets new gamma control for images, plus option to batch import HDRIs.
Thursday, October 25th, 2018