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PBR

Open format for exchanging 3D assets between game engines or web apps now supports physically based rendering.

Saturday, June 17th, 2017

Release improves speed and quality, adds new physically based shaders. Updated: new Houdini plugin HtoA 2.0 now available.

Friday, April 21st, 2017

Download a free Unreal Engine 4 scene with a scanned model of a male head and 4K skin textures.

Sunday, April 16th, 2017

Streamlined iPad modelling app is aimed at pro users, and optimised for the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

Friday, April 7th, 2017

Free(ish) tool for creating rigged 3D human characters gets support for PBR shading, image-based lighting.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

Master PBR shading workflows in Substance Painter and UE4 with Riot Games' Nick Reynolds' detailed guide.

Friday, March 24th, 2017

Updated: Check out the neat new cel-shading options coming up in the next release of LightWave.

Thursday, March 16th, 2017

Cool AI tech automatically upreses PS2-era textures to today's games, or converts scanned textures to stylised ones.

Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Open source C# engine from firm behind Final Fantasy XV's render tech to go commercial in April.

Friday, February 24th, 2017

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Aidy Burrows' free shader set-up mimics UE4's physically based shading in the Blender viewport.

Tuesday, August 30th, 2016

Massive online library of scans of real-world materials and objects used on The Jungle Book finally goes live. Two free helper tools, too.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2016