Download 2,600 free 2K sky images from MattePaint
Get 2,000 x 1,000px sky images to use in matte painting or as render backplates. For commercial use.
Sunday, February 13th, 2022
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Get free Blender add-ons BlendArTrack & BlendArMocap
Try promising open-source add-ons for camera tracking and markerless facial, finger and body mocap.
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
Get a free Stylized Fantasy Tree Generator for Blender
Neat add-on generates attractively stylised trees that can be exported to DCC apps or game engines.
Sunday, January 30th, 2022
GraphN lets you create custom tools for Maya and Unreal
Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
See the 2022 Blender development roadmap
Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
Maxon acquires Pixologic
Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
LuxCoreRender 2.6 and BlendLuxCore 2.6 ship
Open-source renderer and its Blender plugin get support for OpenColorIO 2. Parsing of mesh lights '3x faster'.
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
iToo Software releases RailClone 5 for 3ds Max
Parametric modelling plugin gets new banking controls for splines; can now distribute lights and VDBs.
Friday, December 17th, 2021
Adobe ships After Effects 22.1
Compositing software gets Universal Text Engine for titling and motion graphics. New Extended Viewport for 3D work now in beta.
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Download the free Moves by Maxon iOS mocap app
Update: free app can now create 3D scans of objects in Cinema 4D, as well as capturing mocap data.
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022.3
Latest version of Maya adds new options for retargeting facial animation. Bifrost, USD, Substance and Arnold plugins all updated.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021