Foundry cuts price of Education Collective
Students can now get one-year licences of Nuke, Katana, Mari and Modo for $99, if they don't already get them free as part of a course.
Friday, September 29th, 2023
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Download 3,000 free mocap moves from Bandai Namco
Games firm's R&D division releases massive set of mocap data, plus free Blender BVH import script.
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Pixar ships RenderMan for Blender
New RenderMan integration places the open-source 3D app on the same footing as Maya or Houdini.
Wednesday, June 30th, 2021
Use Faceware Studio for free for six months
New PLE licences of the real-time facial mocap software can be used with MetaHumans in Unreal Engine.
Thursday, June 10th, 2021
Toolchefs ships Atoms VFX 4.0 and AtomsUnreal 2.0
Crowd animation system for Maya and Houdini gets new behaviour tree. UE4 plugin also now updated.
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
Get ZBrushCoreMini 2021: the new free edition of ZBrush
Free non-commercial edition of ZBrush gets new sculpting brushes and now renders turntable movies.
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021
Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
Download ZBrushCoreMini: the new free edition of ZBrush
Check out this streamlined free entry-level edition of Pixologic's industry-standard sculpting tool.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Download 19 free 3D models of prehistoric animal species
Fuel your creature designs - or your nightmares - with 3D models from the University of Oxford's First Animals exhibition.
Sunday, June 7th, 2020
Get the free V-Ray for Maya Personal Learning Edition
New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Ziva Dynamics makes Ziva VFX Academic licences free
Powerful Maya soft tissue simulation plugin now available free to students and educators.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2020
Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Education Collection
New licence gives students and educators nine versions of V-Ray plus Phoenix FD for $149/year.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020
Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1
Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2019