Free feather and hair nodes for Substance 3D Designer
Neat add-ons generate textures for use inside game engines like UE5, complete with flow and ID maps.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Unreal Engine
Get FluidNinja VFX Tools for Unreal Engine for free
Popular add-on for baking fluid simulations to flipbooks and flowmaps in UE4 and UE5 is free during July 2022.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2022
Kinetix releases Kinetix 1.5
Check out the new features in the browser-based tool for turning video footage into 3D animation. You can use it for free in beta.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2022
J Cube releases Multiverse | USD 7.1 for Maya
Check out the new features in this sizeable update to the USD-native shot layout and look dev solution.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Download Epic Games' free Animation Field Guide
New free 120-page e-book provides an overview of real-time production with Unreal Engine.
Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
Tutorial: Unreal Engine 5 Material System Overview
Get started with materials in UE5 with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed new introductory tutorial.
Monday, June 27th, 2022
Get the new Unity and UE5 Substance plugins
Edit .sbsar materials inside the latest versions of the game engines with Adobe's new free plugins.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Get the free 'mesh to MetaHuman' plugin for Unreal Engine
New Epic Games plugin turns facial scans and sculpts into next-gen MetaHuman characters for use in Maya or UE5.
Friday, June 10th, 2022
Download free Houdini tools from Project Titan
Updated: get five new free tools from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 tech demo, plus its Houdini Engine for UE5 plugin.
Sunday, June 5th, 2022
Autodesk invests in AI-based mocap platform RADiCAL
Firm aims to bring the cloud-based mocap system to new professional visual effects and animation users.
Friday, May 27th, 2022
Reallusion releases Character Creator 4
Updated with new video: check out the new features in this big update to the character creation software.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2022
Download 3,000 free mocap moves from Bandai Namco
Games firm's R&D division releases massive set of mocap data, plus free Blender BVH import script.
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Download sprite sheet and texture browser GTV for free
Get the fast, lightweight tool for browsing sprites and textures for games, previously priced at $20.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2022