Discover five key features for CG artists in Unity 2020.1
Read our run-down of the key new features in the game engine, from better ray tracing to AI-driven character posing.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2020
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JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5
Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.
Friday, July 17th, 2020
Download ZBrushCoreMini: the new free edition of ZBrush
Check out this streamlined free entry-level edition of Pixologic's industry-standard sculpting tool.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Inkscape 1.0 ships
Open-source vector design tool reaches its milestone 1.0 release. Check out the new drawing, vector editing and export features here.
Tuesday, May 5th, 2020
EmberGen is now in beta
JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.
Monday, May 4th, 2020
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 4.9.34
New stable build of the sculpting and painting tool adds support for Megascans materials; updates the Cloth tool and Blender live link.
Wednesday, March 25th, 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
Download 15 free photographic cutouts of trees and bushes
Get Mariusz Rawski's cutouts of garden trees and bushes in PNG format at widths of up to 5,500px. For commercial use.
Sunday, March 8th, 2020
Download 40 free Viz-People photographic cutout people
Get varied photographic cutouts of people for use in visualisation work. PNG format, for commercial use.
Sunday, February 16th, 2020
Check out the new features in ftrack Review 4.5
Check out the new features in ftrack's lightweight cloud-based shot review and approval system.
Wednesday, January 29th, 2020
Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Download 40 free blood textures from ActionVFX
Get free blood spots, spatters and trails, for use in VFX work. 32-bit PNG files, for commercial use.
Sunday, November 17th, 2019
Visualise height maps in 3D with neat free tool Aerialod
Fun new app turns elevation data into 3D terrain and renders path-traced stills or turntable animations.
Sunday, October 20th, 2019