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Get this free, hi-res scan of a female head in Maya or Alembic format, complete with 8K texture maps.

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015

Relight even images rendered with DoF or motion blur with this nifty set of 'deep relighting' tools for Nuke.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2015

Maya crowd-simulation system gets new options for blendshape animation, auto IK - and support for very big sims indeed.

Monday, May 25th, 2015

Download 10 hours of video on creating production-ready FX in 3ds Max, thinkingParticles and FumeFX, with project files.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

Popular browser-based 3D modelling, animation and rendering system gets new streamlined look.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2015

Maya crowd system gets neat new animation and simulation editing tools. Cool new demo reel, too.

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

RenderMan-compliant renderer used on Elysium now available for 3ds Max. The first licence is free.

Thursday, March 19th, 2015

Check out the month's best tech demos, including some stunning work from The Mill and Blur Studio.

Saturday, February 28th, 2015

Downloadable 3ds Max template turns any model into an attractive clay-shaded turntable animation.

Thursday, February 12th, 2015

Control armies via natural language with the crowd simulation tool's new human language logic system.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Create Smart IBL lighting setups in Maya and V-Ray semi-automatically with this handy free helper script.

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

Jason Lewis puts HP's 15-inch professional mobile workstation through a battery of real-world tests.

Thursday, January 15th, 2015

Free RF tool for meshing particles at render time gets better Arnold support, system for surface spray.

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014