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Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini

Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.

Friday, April 18th, 2025

Download 15 free smoke, fire and dust sims in VDB format

Get free FX elements simulated in EmberGen in CC0 format, including this seamlessly loopable tornado.

Sunday, April 17th, 2022

Watch 26 of Pete Draper's 3ds Max video tutorials

Updated: see a new batch from the VFX expert, including a three-hour tutorial on simulating a tornado.

Monday, January 7th, 2013

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Adobe releases Photoshop 26.6

Check out the new features in the image-editing software, including nifty new Select Details options in the AI-based Object Selection tool.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Chaos releases Corona 12 Update 2 for 3ds Max and Cinema 4D

Update to the renderer adds over 3,100 Chaos Scans materials to the Cosmos library, and improves DoF and volumetric effects.

Thursday, April 24th, 2025

Get 260+ modular Wild West building assets for Unreal Engine

Get JustB Studios' 1850s Post Office Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. For commercial use.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader

Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025

NVIDIA open-sources PhysX's GPU simulation code

Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5

Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

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