D3CRYPT3D releases new free beta of PolyPort
Interesting tool lets you encrypt 3D models to prevent piracy. Now works with Blender and Maya.
Monday, August 28th, 2017
Maya
Download Ahmed Shalaby's free JasmineRose Maya rig
Get this free stylised female character rig for Maya, with detailed facial animation controls.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Mainframe North releases Bool for Maya
Neat modelling plugin lets you use any native Maya Boolean operation non-destructively, and in real time.
Wednesday, August 23rd, 2017
Autodesk makes Arnold free to schools and colleges
Free educational licences now available. Price of commercial subscriptions halved when renting in blocks of five.
Friday, August 18th, 2017
Easy Treez turns rough poly models into procedural trees
Neat plugin lets you use Maya's standard tools to control the form of the animated CG trees it creates.
Wednesday, August 16th, 2017
Esri ships CityEngine 2017.0
Powerful 3D city-generation software used on Independence Day 2 gets new measurement and building customisation toolsets.
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Foundry to integrate AMD's Radeon ProRender into Modo
Native version of the physically based GPU renderer in beta this year. New open-source 'Baikal' edition out now.
Monday, August 7th, 2017
Animal Logic open-sources its AL_USDMaya plugin
Studio's in-house USD authoring plugin for Maya, used on Peter Rabbit, now available open-source.
Friday, August 4th, 2017
Redshift team releases Redshift 2.5
GPU renderer gets better sampling, firefly removal, Mac support, Cinema 4D and Katana plugins.
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Luxion ships KeyShot 7
Renderer gets new VR camera, support for animated mesh deformations and video maps, better material and HDRI editing.
Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
Massive Software unveils Massive Prime 9.0
Heavyweight crowd simulator to get new 'universal plugin' to allow compatibility to 'all major' 3D apps.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Katana 3.0 users will get 3Delight renderer free
Powerful RenderMan-compliant renderer will be available as free interactive rendering plugin when Katana 3.0 ships.
Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
Watch the best CG shorts from Siggraph 2017
Watch highlights of 15 of the year's best animated and VFX shorts, with accompanying tech breakdowns.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017