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
HDRI
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
SiNi Software ships version 1.11 of its 3ds Max plugins
Utility toolkit IgNite gets updates to Sculpt, Scribe and Illumi; other plugins now support V-Ray Next.
Monday, August 6th, 2018
Download Grzegorz Baran's 16 spherical 8K HDRIs for free
Use the Ubisoft environment artist's discount code to get his new 360 HDRI Panorama Pack 01 for free.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Download Kungfujackrabbit Studio's 25 free HDRIs
Get 25 synthetic HDRIs for use in product renders. 10,000 x 5,000px resolution, for commercial use.
Sunday, July 15th, 2018
PlaySys ships Real HDR
Interesting new tool lets you place light sources on a 2D canvas to create your own synthetic HDRIs. Works in 32-bit linear colour space.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Download 29 free Eisklotz HDRIs at resolutions up to 16K
Get 29 high-res HDRIs of interior and exterior scenes, many with backplates. For commercial use.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Get Allan McKay's free eight-hour plasma VFX tutorial
VFX supervisor's new free training course comes with full project files in MAX, FBX and Alembic formats.
Thursday, May 31st, 2018
Download 300+ free 16,000px HDRIs from HDRI Haven
Updated: Many of the popular resource site's free HDRIs now come with 36MP backplates. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 18th, 2018