The best Black Friday and winter 2018 deals for CG artists
Updated with a new batch of winter offers: save money on CG software and resources with these deals.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
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Eye candy: Insydium's new X-Particles showreel
See beautiful semi-abstract effects created in the Cinema 4D particle tool and rendered in Cycles 4D.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Z Tools for Houdini live links Houdini and ZBrush
Handy add-on transfers geometry and paint changes between the two apps without manual export.
Tuesday, December 18th, 2018
Ziva Dynamics releases Ziva VFX 1.5 for Maya
Skin and muscle simulation plugin gets new solvers for faster, more controllable secondary dynamics.
Thursday, December 13th, 2018
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Abvent releases Twinmotion 2019 v2
Update to real-time visualisation tool integrates BIMobject's online library of free 3D furniture models.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2018
Next Limit releases RealFlow | 3ds Max 1.0
Create RealFlow simulations inside 3ds Max with the new cut-down plugin version of the fluid simulator.
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
Download free Blender texture scattering plugin SCATTr
Handy add-on distributes textures across a surface. Uses range from PBR materials to motion graphics.
Monday, November 26th, 2018
Otoy ships OctaneRender 4.0
Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2018
Radeon ProRender updated for 3ds Max, Maya and Blender
OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.
Saturday, November 17th, 2018
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 15.2
Free update extends support for OpenFX plugins in the new Fusion toolset, adds Beauty plugin for smoothing skin.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Boris FX ships Mocha Pro, Continuum and Sapphire 2019
Mocha Pro now has 360° tracking tool Mocha VR; Continuum gets 2D particle system particleIllusion.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Anastasiy releases MagicRefs for Photoshop
Handy Photoshop 'superpanel' makes it easier to import, organise and work with reference images.
Friday, November 9th, 2018