Free tool: export_masks for Substance 3D Painter
Get Wes McDermott's handy free add-on for... well, exporting layer masks from Substance 3D Painter.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
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Free tool: Hextile for Houdini and Unreal Engine
Mohsen Tabasi's award-winning free tool minimises visible repeats by tiling textures using a hex grid.
Monday, February 13th, 2023
These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Tyson Ibele releases tyFlow 1.012 for 3ds Max
Major update adds complete new terrain-generation system to the Max particle and physics add-on.
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
Spline Dynamics releases Scatter Tools for 3ds Max
Neat new set dressing plugin can automatically add ornaments and books to the furniture in a scene.
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
Tutorial: Creating Keyframe Concepts for Film & Animation
Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals the unexpected 3D tools that can speed up your concept art work.
Sunday, January 29th, 2023
Maxon releases Red Giant 2023.2 product updates
See what's new in Maxon's suites of effects plugins, including Trapcode 2023.2 and Magic Bullet 2023.2.
Sunday, January 15th, 2023
e-on software ships Vue 2023 and PlantFactory 2023
Check out the new features in the first update to the landscape- and plant-generation tools since 2021.
Friday, January 13th, 2023
Free tool: Reallusion's Auto Setup for Unity
Edit characters exported from Character Creator or iClone in the Unity Editor with this handy plugin.
Thursday, January 5th, 2023
Maverick Studio and Maverick Indie 2022.7 released
Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including options for motion-graphics-style effects.
Tuesday, December 27th, 2022
Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max
GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources Bifrost USD
Toolset for authoring USD scenes with the graph editor from Maya's Bifrost plugin now free under an Apache 2.0 licence.
Monday, December 12th, 2022
Autodesk ships Flame 2023.3
Compositing and effects software gets support for AWS CDI in the cloud. Old Sparks plugins to be deprecated in the next update.
Saturday, December 10th, 2022