Download Grzegorz Baran's 16 spherical 8K HDRIs for free
Use the Ubisoft environment artist's discount code to get his new 360 HDRI Panorama Pack 01 for free.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
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Download 44 free 14MP HDRs of industrial environments
New website HDR Vault offers 14MP spherical HDRs of industrial and public spaces under a CC0 licence.
Sunday, November 12th, 2017
Adobe ships After Effects CC (October 2017)
Videos: see the new tools for editing 360-degree VR video and creating data-driven animation.
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Download 12 free HDR images of industrial environments
Get Philip Modin's 14-megapixel HDRs of factories and workshops. EXR format, for commercial use.
Sunday, June 4th, 2017
Download three free high-res HDRI Skies sky maps
Get three free 16,000 x 8,000px HDRI skies, exclusively for our readers. All licensed for commercial use.
Sunday, October 23rd, 2016
Chaos Group ships V-Ray 3.1 for Maya
Sizeable update adds two new VR camera types, extends V-Ray RT GPU, boosts performance all round.
Friday, July 31st, 2015
Andrew Hazelden releases PlayblastVR for Maya
Dover Studios co-founder's previz renderer outputs images in panoramic VR formats, or as 360° YouTube videos.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2015
Download 116 free 360° environments from Texturify
They're only LDR images, but the resolution is good, and they're all licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, February 11th, 2015
Download NoEmotion's 150 free 15,000 x 7,000px HDRs
Pick from 150 ultra-hi-res spherical HDRs, licensed for commercial use. Don't download them all at once!
Friday, December 12th, 2014
Download Viz-People's HDRi v1 collection for free
Get ten 12,000px x 5,800px spherical HDRs taken at different times of day, each with its own tonemapped PNG.
Friday, November 21st, 2014
Knald Technologies releases Lys in open beta
Cool new tool converts HDR files between formats and generates specular and irradiance textures.
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Ricoh launches $399 spherical panorama camera
The Theta captures 360-degree images in a single click - but is the quality good enough for CG pros?
Friday, September 6th, 2013
Viz-People releases six free spherical skies
Download six hi-res 360-degree sky images, licensed for use in your commercial CG work.
Wednesday, October 17th, 2012