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Download over 100 free Arnold materials from Visualact
Get 117 metal, plastic and ceramic materials as Maya scene files with 2,048px textures. Commercial use.
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Boris FX releases free update to Continuum 2019
Free 12.0.1 update improves performance of the effects plugin suite's new Particle Illusion toolset.
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Mario Baldi releases Edge Flow 2.0 for Modo
Handy Modo add-on automatically 'relaxes' edge loops to create clean, animation-ready topology.
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QuadSpinner ships Gaea
Hotly tipped next-gen terrain design tool gets official release. The Community edition is free, and licensed for commercial work.
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Pixologic teases ZBrush 2019
Preview image suggests update will add new folder and camera systems, updates to ZRemesher and Spotlight, plus 'Alpha Mesher'.
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Richard Rosenman releases Electra for Photoshop
New Photoshop plugin adds highly customisable lightning bolts and electrical arcs to 2D source images.
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Whip your reel into shape at demo reel boot camp
Get free tips on creating a winning reel from recruiters at ILM, The Mill, Infinity Ward and DreamWorks at Gnomon next week.
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Chaos Group launches Chaos Cloud online rendering service
Accessible within nine key editions of V-Ray, with Corona Renderer and Phoenix FD to come, but limited GPU support as yet.
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Red Giant releases Trapcode Suite 15.1
Free update to suite of After Effects plugins adds the option to use text and masks as particle emitters.
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Master environment art workflows for videogames
Get started with Naughty Dog artist Martin Teichmann's new series of videos for The Gnomon Workshop.
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Sketchfab’s models of the month: February 2019
See the month's best real-time 3D models, including some - quite literally - eye-popping character art.
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Download 56 free PBR fabric materials for Unreal Engine
Get games artist Ronan Mahon's free set of 4K PBR materials based on 3D scans of real-world fabrics.
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Check out virtual production tools BeeHive and DragonFly
Neat UE4 and Unity-compatible collaboration toolkit and virtual camera system now out in beta.
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Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.4
Updated: download free 'components' to add extra features to the terrain generation software from Wysilab's new online library.
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Check out the new features in ZBrush 2019
Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.
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Maxon ships Cinebench R20
Popular free tool for benchmarking graphics workstations now properly stresses modern CPUs, but the GPU benchmark has gone entirely.
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Arnold for 3ds Max gets new particle rendering capabilities
MAXtoA 2.4.43 adds option to export as Arnold points primitives, plus new options for instancing Particle Flow systems.
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Cebas releases finalRender for Maya 2018 as free open beta
Old production edition of the renderer now updated for Maya 2018 and free for commercial use.
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Shotgun gets new integrations for After Effects, Jira, Unity
New After Effects and Jira Bridge plugins for the production tracking system due out at GDC next week.
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Otoy releases OctaneRender 2018.1
GPU renderer gets new procedural systems Vectron and Spectron; Cryptomatte and NVLink support.
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