Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500
Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.
Wednesday, April 1st, 2020
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Red Giant Complete is now free to students and teachers
Subscribe to all of Red Giant's VFX and motion graphics tools for free if you're at high school or college.
Friday, March 27th, 2020
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.9
Maya soft tissue simulation plugin gets support for file referencing. Now compatible with Maya 2020.
Thursday, March 26th, 2020
Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0
LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Get 150 free mocap moves from Rokoko's Motion Library
Includes 50 new high-impact moves recorded specially by God of War stunt artist Eric Jacobus.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Act-3D releases Lumion 10.3
Real-time visualisation software gets an improved render preview, support for displacement maps, new live link plugin for AutoCAD.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Check out neat ZBrush retopology tool EaZyremesh
Interesting new $7 tool lets users control edge flow on remeshed geometry by painting guide lines.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
Download Maxon's free Cineware for Unity plugin
Handy plugin converts Cinema 4D rigs, materials and lights into their Unity equivalents for real-time use.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2020
FXGear ships Qualoth 2020
Robust Maya cloth plugin gets support for Maya 2020's cached playback system for simulations, finer control over cloth collisions.
Friday, March 6th, 2020
Get Shawn Olson's Wall Worm plugins for 3ds Max for free
Download the handy free suite of modelling, texturing and layout tools for 3ds Max game artists.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020