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Download 150 new Xfrog plant models for free
Get 38 common species in a wide range of standard formats, including OBJ, 3DS, plus Vue and Terragen.
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Luxion unveils KeyShot 4.1
Intuitive standalone renderer to get caustics, procedural materials and a rather cool-looking new toon shader.
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Download 24 free 5,000-pixel HDR files from HDRMAPS
All licensed for use in commercial work - but you'll have to get in quick before the offer ends.
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Next Limit ships RealFlow 2013
Long-awaited update adds Alembic support, GPU-accelerated Hybrido 2 fluid solver, new Relationship Editor.
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Cool tech: Disney Research’s DuctTake compositor
See the system merge two takes of a shot with no more artist input than a few quick scribbles on the footage.
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Our pick of Siggraph 2013′s emerging technologies
New research on show ranges from weird Kinect tricks to using your bathwater as a touchscreen interface.
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Pilgway ships 3D-Coat 4.0
Now out of beta: voxel sculpting package gets new Live Clay dynamic mesh system and 3D paint tools.
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Joe Alter releases LipService 6.5 for Maya
Updated with new video: sculpting and rigging toolset gets muscle system similar to Weta's Tissue.
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Blender to get sketch mesh editing, deformation blur?
Just two of fifteen Blender development projects to be funded by Google's Summer of Code 2013.
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Download Ten24′s free hi-res scan of a human skull
Available as a ZBrush 4R5 ZTL file or decimated OBJ, and licensed for use in commercial work.
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Eye candy: MPC’s Life of Pi VFX breakdown
Check out a four-minute breakdown of the studio's Oscar-winning work, including two key storm sequences.
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Allegorithmic releases B2M Lite for iOS and Android
Create texture maps on the move with this free version of Bitmap2Material for mobile devices.
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Thinkbox Software ships Deadline 6.0
Renderfarm manager gets intuitive new graph view, MongoDB backend, built-in cloud management tools.
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Mainframe North releases Mash 2.0 for Maya
Nodes for creating motion graphics get full commercial release: now faster and easier to install.
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Animators’ Toolkit for 3ds Max “creates cool stuff, faster”
$25 suite of scripts created by two VFX veterans boosts common rigging and animation tasks.
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e-on software pre-releases The Plant Factory
But immediately removes polygon export limit in response to user flak over pricing and feature restrictions.
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Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 8
UV unwrapping tool now handles million-triangle meshes and outputs multi-grid UVs for use in Mari.
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Milan Suk releases BulletSOP 2.0 for Houdini
New free tool creates ultra-complex rigid-body simulations in Houdini using the Bullet physics toolset.
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NFB releases free iPad animation app
Create shorts using digital versions of Norman McLaren's techniques - or watch 51 of his own films.
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Eye candy: How to Train Your Robot
Frail human jaw meets giant robotic fist in this neat short from students at the new Platige Academy.
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