Download Animal Logic's free ALab USD production scene
Updated: ace USD test scene now has 300+ production-quality assets, including two rigged characters.
Friday, August 5th, 2022
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Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
iToo Software releases Forest Pack 7.4.3 for 3ds Max
Scattering plugin gets support for V-Ray 6, plus new options for replacing scene objects by name.
Thursday, July 14th, 2022
Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for 3ds Max
Latest update makes the renderer subscription-only, but licences work across 8 other host applications.
Thursday, July 7th, 2022
Scene Group ships Cavalry 1.3
Check out the new features in the next-gen motion graphics software, including new shaders and integrated JavaScript scripting.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2022
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V6
Check out the new procedural modelling and scattering tools in the popular 'all-in-one' add-on.
Monday, March 21st, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Create art-directable building demolition FX in Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.
Monday, December 13th, 2021
Chaos releases V-Ray 5 for Houdini Update 2
Update to the Houdini edition of the renderer extends V-Ray for Solaris, improves the hair material.
Saturday, December 11th, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Designer 11.3
Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for Maya Update 2
Renderer gets new decal system, support for USD lights, access to the Chaos Cosmos asset library.
Friday, November 12th, 2021
Chaos ships V-Ray 5 for 3ds Max Update 2
3ds Max renderer gets new texture projection system V-Ray Decal and light instancing with VRayInstancer.
Tuesday, October 26th, 2021