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Check out Introduction to Creature Design

May 3, 2021

New Gnomon Workshop tutorials set out key workflows for sketching and colouring creature concepts. Read More »
Download 5,000 free texture images from Texture Ninja

December 16, 2018

Get textures and photo cutouts from 3D artist Joost Vanhoutte's website under a free CC0 licence. Read More »
Download 11 free hi-res aerial panoramas of clouds

April 8, 2018

Get Jacek Pilarski's 16-bit panoramas of clouds at widths over 6,000px, for use in matte paintings. Read More »

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Free tool Grassify adds grass to Blender models

Add fast-rendering animatable grass to any Blender model with this free Geometry Nodes set-up. Read more »

June 9, 2023
Autodesk ships Arnold 7.2.2

Update makes CPU renders on Intel, AMD and Apple CPUs perceptually identical, and edits to large scenes 'nearly instantaneous'. Read more »

June 8, 2023
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender

GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated. Read more »

June 8, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 13.0

Material authoring app gets a new set of Spline and Path tools, but its procedural geometry toolset has been removed. Read more »

June 7, 2023

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5 steps to creating convincing photorealistic 3D portraits

Discover how to model, texture and light ultra-realistic 3D characters with tips from leading CG artists. Read more »

January 19, 2022

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