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ActionVFX provides you with free snow textures
Virtual snow shovelling is your hobby? Then skim the 49-piece texture collection in 2K now. Can you already hear the snow crunching?
Download USD Island Paradise from the Disney film Moana now
South Pacific beaches are beyond your travel budget? Then take a trip to Motunui Island now with this USD download.
The Lighting Generator is coming for Blender 3.0
A light goes on for two Artist luminaires, the result: free radiance (for you)!
Free Plant Models Vol. 60 Released
Maxtree released Plant Models Vol. 60, a free collection of high-resolution vegetation assets for 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D.
Free Unreal Dissolve Effects Pack
NadirFX's Character Appearance and Dissolve pack supplied 20 Unreal Engine effects with mobile variants, textures and material functions.
Night falls with the Ursa Mini Pro 12K!
As announced in the issue, here are the scenes from the BMD UMP 12K - at night. So if you want to know how good you are as a documentary filmmaker, you can download 5GB of video data free of charge here.
Elite Landscape Pack Free for Unreal Engine
Elite Landscape provides 23 terrain assets and seven 360-degree sky panoramas for Unreal Engine, offered free in October 2021.
UV Ultimate Trim Script for 3ds Max
Inu Tools' free UV Ultimate Trim script streamlines trim-sheet handling in 3ds Max with alignment, padding and resolution controls.
Premiere Pro Project View Presets Favour the List View
Editor Scott Simmons shared Premiere Pro project-view presets designed around the List View rather than thumbnail-heavy browsing.
TensorFlow.js Brings Real-Time 3D Pose Detection to the Browser
TensorFlow introduced a free browser API for real-time pose detection using TensorFlow.js, MediaPipe BlazePose and the GHUM model.
Free Blender Baker Add-on Speeds PBR Texture Baking
Daniel Bystedt’s free Blender Baker add-on was designed to streamline PBR texture-map and lighting baking from high- to low-resolution models.
Epic Games Releases Free Live Link VCAM App for Unreal Engine
Live Link VCAM turned an iPhone or iPad into a real-time virtual camera controller for Unreal Engine productions.
RealityCapture 1.2 Offered Free to Schools and Universities
Epic Games Slovakia offered educational institutions free RealityCapture licences through a university email and declaration-of-use process.
Alab Production Scene | Release
Animal Logic pushes the USD-based workflow: with this free USD asset.
Premiere listens – and types!
New functions and tools are added with every Creative Cloud update. In the last major update for Premiere, there was an entire subsection - transcribing. But how exactly does it work? (Including self-test and prize draw)
Howler 2020 Becomes Available Free of Charge
Project Dogwaffle made Howler 2020 free, offering tools for digital painting, animation, video processing, terrain and rotoscoping.
FreeMoCap Project Targets Low-Cost Markerless Motion Capture
Jonathan Matthis presented FreeMoCap, an open-source framework designed to generate full-body motion capture from two USB webcams.
Epic Games Releases 500 Free City Park Assets for Unreal Engine
The City Park Environment Collection offered more than 500 free Unreal Engine assets including trees, plants, buildings and paving.
Lego Builder Tool | Maya
Creative mobility with the Bat(man)mobil: collecting blocks with Brickit!
Fairlight Audio Guide | Manual
Now for DaVinci Resolve 17: Practical training for (future) sound experts.
Epic Games Acquires ArtStation and Makes Learning Content Free
Epic Games acquired ArtStation and parent company Ballistiq while keeping the portfolio platform independent, reducing marketplace fees and opening learning content.
SGO Makes Mistika Boutique Education Edition Free
SGO released a free Mistika Boutique Education Edition with the professional immersive toolset for conform, colour, VFX, editing, VR and Simplify3D.
Małopolska Virtual Museums Publishes Over 1,000 Historical 3D Scans
A collaboration among 40 Polish museums made more than 1,000 scans of historical objects available online, with most offered under Creative Commons licences.
Epic Games Releases Virtual Production Field Guide Volume 2
Epic Games’ second free Virtual Production Field Guide offered nearly 100 pages of interviews, remote collaboration guidance and Unreal Engine 5 coverage.
Golaem Academy Teaches Crowd Simulation
Golaem marked a decade of its crowd-simulation software with 16 free training sessions covering large-scale digital populations.
Flow Map Painter Adds Free Blender Painting Tools
Clemens Beute’s free Blender add-on lets artists paint flow maps in both the 2D Image Editor and the 3D viewport.
UModeler Lite Adds Free Unity Modelling Tools
Triplygon’s free UModeler Lite toolkit brings sketch-based level design, 3D modelling, VFX and concept-design tools into Unity.
Houdini Engine Becomes Free for Unreal and Unity
SideFX makes Houdini Engine free for commercial Unreal Engine 4 and Unity projects, enabling procedural assets without engine licence fees.
VFX Assets Releases Free Lunar Displacement Map
VFX Assets offers a free 46K Moon displacement map and a 184K sample, with the complete 184K lunar dataset sold separately.
Free Bird’s-Eye People Pack Adds Eight Groups
Vis-Shopper releases eight free bird’s-eye-view people groups for populating architectural scenes viewed from above.
More Than 70 Free High-Resolution HDRIs Available from iHDRI
Game artist Elvis Posa made more than 70 indoor and outdoor HDR environments available for commercial use.
Divider Offers Free Procedural Fragmentation for Cinema 4D
The free Divider plug-in creates procedural polygon subdivisions and modular fragmentation effects inside Cinema 4D.
Rebelway Offers Free VFX Career Guide
Rebelway’s free 70-page ebook covers VFX software, education, demo reels, industry pay and advice for aspiring artists.
Maxon Streams Free 3D and Motion Design Show
Maxon’s October 2020 online event featured free artist presentations covering Cinema 4D, Redshift, Red Giant tools and real-time workflows.
Animatics Channel Curates Animated Short Films
Autour de Minuit’s Animatics channel presents animated shorts for adult audiences, including The Death, Dad & Son, Pixels and Logorama.
Unreal Marketplace Offers Free October 2020 Assets
Epic Games’ October 2020 Marketplace selection included a 70-model low-poly plant pack, environments, characters, tools and audio assets.
Studio Ghibli Releases 400 Film Stills
Studio Ghibli released 400 still images from eight films, including Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle and Ponyo.
Magma Studio Brings Team Painting Online
Browser-based Magma Studio combines professional painting tools, cloud autosave and real-time collaboration for teams of up to 30.
Custom Default Parameter Manager for 3ds Max
Changsoo Eun’s utility exposes 3ds Max 2021.1 classes and parameters so users can change defaults without editing MaxScript directly.
Premiere Rush Adds Pan and Zoom and Auto Reframe
Adobe Premiere Rush added Pan and Zoom plus Auto Reframe across iOS, Android and desktop versions.
Unreal Marketplace’s Free Asset Packs for August 2020
Epic’s August 2020 Unreal Marketplace promotion included radial menus, medieval, jungle, vehicle and animal asset packs.
mnsAnnotate Displays Text Information in Maya Viewports
Asaf Ben Zur’s free mnsAnnotate tool displayed production notes and other text directly inside Maya viewports.
Autodesk Virtual Vision Series 2020 Announces Three-Day Line-up
Autodesk’s September 2020 Virtual Vision Series covered Maya, Bifrost, Shotgun, 3ds Max, Arnold, Flame, USD and virtual production.
Blender Tools for Unreal Engine
Epic Games released Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify to streamline FBX-based transfers between Blender and Unreal Engine.
ziRail Retopology Tool for Maya
The ziRail beta draws strokes on a mesh and turns them into polygon patches for retopology in Maya 2018–2020 on Windows.
MeshMolder 2020 Released
MeshMolder 2020 added shape-based selection, improved booleans, back-face filtering and fixes for undo and redo.
Octane X PR1 Brings Metal Rendering
Octane X PR1 introduced a native Metal-based OctaneRender preview for macOS 10.15.6 systems with AMD Vega and Navi GPUs.
Verge3D Setup Tutorial
Jamie Cardoso demonstrates Verge3D project setup and its visual Puzzles system for interactive 3D web experiences.
MagicSquire 4.0 Updates Brush Control
MagicSquire 4.0 added HUD access, temporary Sticky Brushes, Smart Search and multi-file ABR/TPL imports.
Free Scalable UV Checker Maps
Maurus Kamehameha shared four free UV checker maps in 4K, 8K, vector PDF and editable Illustrator formats.
Vertex Colour Editor for 3ds Max
Joker Martini's 3ds Max tool assigned vertex colours by element, object or vertex using distance, position, order or name.
4D Paint Becomes Free for Cinema 4D
4D Paint projected raster and vector artwork directly onto Cinema 4D models and supported OctaneRender's Live Viewer.
Q-Proxies Workflow in 3ds Max
Jamie Cardoso demonstrates renderer-independent Q-Proxies and restoring original textured, modified meshes in 3ds Max.
Blender 2.8 Transform Constraints
Index3D's tutorial explains Transform Constraints in Blender 2.8 through windows, rolling tyres and other mechanical motion examples.
Marvelous Designer Moves to Subscription
CLO Virtual Fashion planned to end new perpetual Marvelous Designer licences with version 10 and phase out upgrade discounts by 2022.
Unity Assets Enter Sinespace
Sine Wave Entertainment and Unity enabled creators to sell Asset Store content inside the Sinespace virtual world.
Xpresso Soft Target Tutorial
Julian Field's seven-minute Cinema 4D tutorial explains the Soft Target system preset in Xpresso.
3DF Zephyr 5 Dragonfruit Released
3DF Zephyr 5 accelerated large photogrammetry datasets, added out-of-core meshing, sharper reconstruction and new workflow tools.
Unreal Marketplace Free Assets for July
July 2020's Unreal Marketplace selection covered environments, ArchViz interiors, PSD-to-UMG conversion, shooter code and characters.
CodeParade’s Non-Euclidean Engine
CodeParade's MIT-licensed engine uses portal views to create impossible geometry, while Hyperbolica explores curved space without portals.
Animated Shorts Created During Lockdown
Cartoon Brew's second lockdown collection gathered animated shorts made in varied styles, from isolation studies to toilet-roll horror.
DP Collection: Free Assets for Everyone
A production-focused archive of free 3D assets, meshes, materials, HDRIs, VFX footage, textures and sound resources.
Unity Learn Is Now Free
Unity made more than 350 hours of Unity Learn Premium training freely available, including AI, C#, AR, VR and visual-fidelity courses.
Hal Hickel Previews Virtual Production
ILM animation director Hal Hickel discussed The Mandalorian's virtual-production methods in a free preVIEW session for VIEW Conference 2020.
Unreal Training: Niagara and Megascans
Three Unreal Engine sessions cover Niagara effects, Quixel Megascans environment assembly and Runtime Virtual Texture transitions.
Capture Google Maps Geometry for Blender
A Windows workflow used RenderDoc and MapsModelsImporter to capture Google Maps geometry and textures for Blender 2.82.
Particle Illusion Standalone Goes Free
Boris FX released a free Particle Illusion standalone with GPU-accelerated 2D emitters, 8K projects, presets and ProRes alpha export.
Free Houdini HDAs Build Roads and Props
Oscar Gaya shared procedural Houdini HDAs for highways, pipes, gears and rope bridges, with curve inputs and Unreal Engine workflows.
Storyboarder 2.0 Expands Shot Planning
Storyboarder 2.0 rebuilt its Shot Generator and added camera exploration, IK posing, orbit controls and multiuser VR.
June 2020 Unreal Assets Archived
Epic’s June 2020 Marketplace selection included landscapes, creatures, city kits, effects, ILIAD and a level-design assistant.
Palette Mapper Visualises Film Colour
The free Palette Mapper plug-in turns an After Effects sequence into a frame-by-frame vertical colour-map visualisation.
TopoGun 3 Beta Opens Retopology Tools
TopoGun 3’s first public beta introduced a new interface plus Guideline, Patch and Brush tools on Windows and macOS.
Free VDB Bundle Packs 30 Dense Volumes
Constantin Paschou’s 25GB bundle collected 30 dense VDB volumes with density, fuel, heat, temperature and velocity channels.
Adobe MAX 2020 Became a Free Online Event
Adobe moved MAX 2020 online for 19-21 October and removed the conference fee during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Inkscape 1.0 Reaches Production Release
Inkscape 1.0 adds live path effects, canvas modes, PDF export improvements, HiDPI support and faster editing of node-heavy artwork.
Houdini 18 Hipster Hair Workflow
A RenderMan training project covers scene setup, grooming, lighting, shading, rendering and compositing for a Houdini 18 hairstyle.
Red Giant’s 2020 Webinar Archive
Red Giant's 2020 webinar programme covered motion graphics, 3D workflows, compositing, colour correction and grading.
Ivy Generator Builds 3ds Max Geometry
The free Ivy script for 3ds Max 2018 to 2020 grows branching geometry and leaves around scene objects, with adjustable forces and materials.
Assimilate Tools Available Free of Charge
Anyone who wants to try out the Assimilate tools in detail now has the opportunity: all programs are free until October.
Coronavirus and CG Software: Free Access
In the context of the current coronavirus situation, several software providers are now offering their tools free of charge for a limited period – including Adobe, Foundry, Autodesk and Avid.
Premiere Pro “Productions” Released
Adobe releases the new “Productions” feature and gives all Premiere and After Effects users access to Team Projects.
Free Illustrations from Old Books
On this page you will find thousands of scans of illustrations from 19th-century books.
Puralsight: Entire Offering Free
In case you haven’t heard yet: Pluralisght has made its entire offering available free of charge for April.
Nvidia: GTC Digital Edition
After cancellation of the event in an online format: Nvidia with GTC Digital and more than 200 hours of webinars, presentations and more.
3D Model Haven Is Live
The makers of HDRI Haven are now online with 3D Model Haven: free 3D models including PBR materials under a CC0 licence.
Red Giant Complete Free for Students and Teachers
Students and teachers can now obtain all tools in Red Giant Complete free of charge for six months.
Free Sound Effects: Weather Pack
Accusonus offers free recordings of thunderstorms, rain, storms, ocean and more until 23 April.
Project Nature: 550 Free Assets
More than 550 Project Nature plant assets are available free of charge in the Unreal Marketplace.
Free | VDB Simulations from JangaFX
Fancy some volumes? Smoke, fire, explosion, implosion and more: you can use these VDBs free of charge for your purposes!
Open Access: More than 2,000 3D Models
More than 2.8 million images and over 2,000 3D models under a CC0 licence: Smithsonian brings various artefacts to the public.
Free Texturing: Mixer 2020 Released
Quixel releases the first Mixer 2020 preview release – with new 3D texture-painting features and more!
Blender-OSM Imports Global Map Data
The free Blender-OSM add-on imports OpenStreetMap buildings, roads, waterways, vegetation and DEM terrain into Blender scenes.
Blender’s Ten Core Projects for 2020
Blender's 2020 roadmap targeted library overrides, multires sculpting, particle nodes, volumes, hair, USD and asset management.
CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pro Was Free on Mac
CrazyTalk Animator 3 Pro offered Mac users 2D rigging, keyframe, IK, facial animation, lip-sync and prop-dynamics tools.
Adobe Premiere Rush 1.5
Adobe update: Premiere Rush with new features for the audio workflow and included soundtracks.
Chaos Group: Lavina Available in Beta
The realtime project for V-Ray is now ready to test as a beta for users with a V-Ray Next Render licence: Project Lavina is available as standalone version 0.10.
100+ Free 4K PBR Textures
And even more material for the texture collection: You can find over 100 free PBR texture sets on Texture Box.