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Xencelabs Pen Display 16 Lite: 4K OLED in a 12 mm Shell
Xencelabs launches the Pen Display 16 Lite, a 12 mm, 1.2 kg 4K OLED tablet with Super AG Etching and EMR pen support. The device targets mobile artists who need wide-gamut color accuracy on the go, with pricing starting at US$ 800 and the full Pen Display 16 Bundle listed at US$1250
SketchUp 2026.0
SketchUp 2026.0 adds in-app collaboration, AO colour control, faster performance, improved DWG/IFC workflows, new LayOut drafting tools, and scan-to-mesh features for Studio users.
Unreal Cabin Fever: 156 Free Assets for UE Users
156 free meshes for cabins, props and trees in Unreal Engine. Available on Fab until 7 October. Lightmaps included, LODs missing.
Clothy3D: New Tool for Clothing Auto-Fit, Rigging & Mesh Transfers
TL;DR: Clothy3D is a new free software tool for auto-fitting and rigging clothes across 3D characters, transferring skeletons and skin weights, and exporting via FBX. With a marketplace and tutorials included, it could bridge pipelines between Marvelous Designer, Daz3D, iClone, and Unreal Engine—though still in beta.
KitBash3D Cargo 2.0 lands with Houdini Solaris importer and 350 free assets
KitBash3D Cargo 2.0 ships with Houdini Solaris USD importer and 350 free assets. Free for personal use, commercial rights require paid plans.
Skin Deep & Code Clean: Free Human Shaders for Godot (Yes, Godot, Not Unreal)
Human character shaders for Godot, free (skin, eyes, wetness) from MatMADNESS. Finally something substantial in Godot; demo & pack available.
Animatics, AI Lighting, and a Free Tier: Previs Pro 3 Expands Storyboarding on iPad
Previs Pro 3: now with animatics, AI lighting, and a free edition for iPad filmmakers.
Marvelous Designer 2025.1: Draw, Wash, Repeat
Marvelous Designer 2025.1 brings Off-Avatar 3D Pen, Denim Wet Wash, AI Pose Generator, and Softbody for custom rigs.
Your Phone, Blender’s Puppet: Blender Object Controller & Camera Controller Add-Ons now with Live View & World Tracking
Blender Object Controller and Camera Controller Beta receive updates: new UDP and live camera streaming, world tracking, timeline and keyframe controls, and more.
Mesh Cleaner for Blender
VFX artist Rob Dickinson releases Mesh Cleaner, a free Blender add-on that fixes common 3D model errors with a single click.
Fab’s Freebies: Let’s grab some pot
Don't miss out on Fab's latest limited-time free content, featuring an Asian-themed environment, a clay pots collection, and an interaction management system, available until February 11th.
Free Modular Bakery Shop Assets for Unreal Engine – Download Now!
Epic Games has released a free Modular Bakery Shop asset pack, featuring 76 highly detailed static meshes, including PBR materials for realistic rendering. Available only for a limited time, the pack is ideal for Unreal Engine users seeking to create a bakery or café environment.
Blender Plug-ins by Jesse Miettinen Now Free to Download
The Developer made his Blender plug-ins free, offering new tools for artists to streamline their workflows.
Namaqualand 3D Assets: Free, Desert Dry—But Not Your Workflow!
Poly Haven drops over 30 3D scans and 10 HDRIs of South African desert plants and rocks, free for VFX pros. Formats? Blender, FBX, USD—and more.
Lightweight Crowds: “People Going Places”
People Going Places is a new free Blender add-on aimed at animating crowd simulations. It provides a streamlined approach to populating scenes with large numbers of moving characters without heavy resource consumption.
Friday Freestuff: Glitch Effect for Blender
Create glitch-based visual effects in Blender with this free distance-based glitch tool. Adjust your 3D scenes with a customizable node setup that leverages object distance to create glitch distortions.
Friday Freestuff: 25 Classic Sculptures for nothing.
Antiquity in the pipeline: Free, but not for nothing - 25 models for free download.
Powerful reviewing & playback software available open source!
As part of the Open Review Initiative, Autodesk is making Open RV available - a powerful tool for reviewing loops.
transferring 3D characters from Reallusion software to Unity?
This plug-in helps to export characters from Character Creator, iClone and ActorCore to the game engine Unity. A free offer.
How do Thinking Particles actually work?
If this question is on your mind, you can now find the answers - thanks to eight free online courses from EffectiveTD. Professional training from industry veterans at Scanline and Stormborn Studios.
Still a checker or already a checker map?
Check it out now: With the free Checker Map from the ex-Weta-Workshop employee, chessboard maps can be customised - and downloaded in 8K!
In space, nobody can hear you … render?
The new download package from ProductionCrate includes 80 assets that enhance aerospace. 10 assets are free of charge.
Create underwater scenes more easily with these free tools!
The Senior Lighting Artist from Ubisoft Montreal creates a valuable toolset - makes it available to artists free of charge via gumroad.com.
127-part HDRI library available for free!
Grzegorz Wronkowski, the creative mind behind a footage exchange, makes HDRIs available free of charge as Blender scene files!
Free December collection at Epic Games!
There's something going on in the online marketplace: these six download packages are available for free until the end of December! The assets are suitable for environment design.
FumeFX simulation software available as a free beta!
Version 6 of the VFX software from developer Sitni Sati enters the beta phase. The trick: FumeFX 6 Beta is also free to use for commercial projects up to and including 21 December 2022!
AWS Thinkbox makes VFX tools available for free!
VFX powerhouses such as Framestore, Pixomondo and Scanline work with it - and now you do too? Amazon Web Services Thinkbox makes its plugins available for free download.
Available free of charge: Darktable 4 released!
The software for RAW image files: The latest version makes the image file workflow even more convenient? For Windows, Max and Linux!
Pilgway publishes 3DCoatPrint!
Free modelling for the 3D printer: Does 3DCoatPrint come with many of the same functions that the regular 3DCoat already offers?
Free 3D anatomy atlas available!
For Blender & Android handsets: With "Z-Atanomy", human inner life is sabred. Who's the next Gunther von Hagen?
Alab Production Scene | Release
Animal Logic pushes the USD-based workflow: with this free USD asset.
Lego Builder Tool | Maya
Creative mobility with the Bat(man)mobil: collecting blocks with Brickit!
Unreal Engine | Free Assets in June
And this month Epic Games is also giving us the next batch of free assets!
DeepC | OSS for Nuke
Deep compositing for everyone! The open source plugin "DeepC" makes it possible.
VLC 3.0 Media Player: With 8K, HDR and Chromecast support
Folks! The new VLC 3.0 Media Player version is now available for free. With the release, VideoLan adds Chromecast, HDR, 360° videos and more!
Allan McKay: Decay VFX Training
New free VFX training from Allan McKay: This time there's a ten-hour session on how to realise this decay effect.
21 free alpha masks
New free stuff: Free hardsurface alpha masks by game artist Dan Rožański. The total of 21 alphas can also be used for commercial purposes!
OctaneVR for After Effects and Nuke!
Otoy releases free versions of Octane for Adobe After Effects and Foundry Nuke - for all OctaneVR subscribers.
94 free effects plug-ins
Whether in After Effects, Nuke, DaVinci, Final Cut or Premiere: FXhome offers over 90 free plug-ins - for keying, VFX, colour correction and more!