Download Maya hair plugin Shave and a Haircut 9.6 free
Get the hair and fur plugin and its Arnold, RenderMan and V-Ray shaders from Epic Games for free.
Thursday, October 24th, 2019
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Uppercut releases U-Render 2019.06 for Cinema 4D
'Really real-time' physically based renderer gets support for 360° spherical and overscan rendering.
Friday, June 21st, 2019
Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut
Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Download over 100 free Arnold materials from Visualact
Get 117 metal, plastic and ceramic materials as Maya scene files with 2,048px textures. Commercial use.
Sunday, February 24th, 2019
Download 300 free measured materials for Unity
Get Unity Technologies' new free library of real-world automotive materials, from chrome to car paint.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
Uppercut launches U-Render in early access
Hotly tipped real-time Cinema 4D PBR render engine gets first paid release. Version 1.0 due next year.
Monday, December 17th, 2018
Epic Games to release monthly free asset drops for UE4 users
Download the first set of free Sponsored Content models and FX via the Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Solid Angle ships Arnold 5.2.1
Update to the renderer adds a Modo-style Round Corners shader and normal map blending; further speeds up adaptive subdivision.
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.15
Free game engine gets readymade components for generating roads and rivers, new pose blending options in the animation editor.
Monday, July 30th, 2018
Master VFX workflows for games in Unreal Engine
Riot Games artist Jeremy Griffith's detailed Gnomon tutorial provides over nine hours of UE4 training.
Friday, June 22nd, 2018
Author PBR materials in your browser with Material-Z.com
Now officially live. Create texture maps and GLSL shader code with Braindistrict's neat online service.
Thursday, June 21st, 2018
Download free assets from Unity's Book of the Dead demo
Get 2.4GB of trees, grass, rocks and ground materials for free, including Megascans 3D scans.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018