Video Copilot unveils Saber
Updated, now shipping. Free After Effects plugin creates energy FX and light trails, including round 3D text.
Sunday, March 6th, 2016
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Amazon releases free Lumberyard game engine
Get full source code access to the CryEngine-based AAA engine, aimed at multiplayer online titles.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2016
Download Tiago Medeiros's nMaker Tools for Photoshop
Set of 12 neat free tools automate common texturing tasks like generating normal and bump maps.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
Download the first demo of Redshift for 3ds Max
3ds Max users get their first chance to try the increasingly popular GPU based biased production renderer.
Wednesday, January 27th, 2016
Download innoBright's free tech preview of Altus 1.0
Intriguing new tool denoises Arnold, V-Ray, Corona and Redshift renders, generating clean images 2-9x faster.
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015
Expresii now available as free public beta
Beautiful new tool lets you paint with virtual brushes and inks, complete with fluid flow and blending.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2015
3DQuakers releases Forester for Cinema 4D
Create procedural, wind-animated plants, then scatter them throughout a scene with this neat new plugin.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2015
FXhome releases Hitfilm 3 Express for free
Get a neat free edition of the editing, compositing and VFX tool. Limited to 1080p export, but licensed for commercial use.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2015
Get BUF's Bview sequence playback software for free
Download the VES Award-winning VFX studio's in-house image viewing, shot review and editing tool.
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 5
Big update readies real-time image-based lighting design tool for serious VFX work, including Alembic and FBX support.
Thursday, May 14th, 2015
Allegorithmic ships free Substance plugin for C4D
Import procedural materials in Substance format into any edition of the software except Cinema 4D Lite.
Thursday, May 7th, 2015
Nuke Non-Commercial is now free to download
All the toolsets of Nuke Studio, but limited to HD output. Check out what you can and can't do with it here.
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
Pixar makes RenderMan free for non-commercial use
Use for tools development is fine too. Ships with Maya and Katana plugins; Houdini and C4D to come.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2015