Nekki ships Cascadeur 2021.1
First commercial release of the unusual physics-based animation app adds neat new Auto Physics tool. Still free to indie users, too.
Tuesday, April 13th, 2021
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Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2021.1
Significant update to the real-time visualisation tool adds new bridge to UE4, new Megascans assets.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Check out neat new 3ds Max cloth plugin Clothify Pro
New add-on lets you pull surfaces into cloth-like folds, then deform them with Max's other modifiers.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2021
Mercenaries Engineering releases Rumba 1.0
Neat next-gen animation tool aims to rethink character work for VFX and feature animation pipelines.
Wednesday, November 11th, 2020
Foundry relaxes plugin restrictions on Nuke Indie
$499/year edition of Nuke for indie artists and freelancers now works with OFX plugins like Neat Video.
Friday, September 25th, 2020
Download the first public demo of Redshift 3.0
New trial edition lets you test this major update to the GPU renderer, even if you aren't an existing user.
Tuesday, September 15th, 2020
3ds Max Indie and Maya Indie now available in 46 countries
Updated: 15 more countries join the list of those eligible for $280/year subscriptions to Maya and 3ds Max.
Friday, September 4th, 2020
Adobe ships Fresco 1.9
Natural media painting and vector drawing app for iOS and Windows devices gets new brush previews, plus support for clipping masks.
Thursday, August 20th, 2020
Foundry releases Nuke Indie
'Lightly restricted' new $499/year edition of Nuke Studio is aimed at freelance compositors. Find out how it compares to the full version.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2020.2
Material authoring tool gets neat new AI-trained Image to Material filter and new 2D painting toolset.
Tuesday, June 16th, 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
Get the free V-Ray for Maya Personal Learning Edition
New PLE edition of the renderer can be used for free indefinitely, unlike the existing trial version.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Download the new free Unigine Community Edition
Powerful enterprise-grade real-time 3D engine now available free for indie games and VFX projects.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2020