UV Packmaster 2 for 3ds Max | Update
Faster packing in 3ds Max? UVPackmaster 2 is now available as a plug-in – on CUDA-capable cards, the tool also comes with GPU support!
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Cyberpunk 2077 | Cinematic Making Of
The 4K cinematic trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 in a making-of: Goodbye Kansas shows its work on the brilliant E3 cinematic!
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.
Facebuilder for Blender | Open Beta
KeenTools Facebuilder for Blender 2.8: The original Nuke tool is currently available as a free open Blender add-on beta!
Substance Painter Release | Auto UVs
Substance Painter 2019.3 finally adds automatic UV unwrapping, brush updates and news about cross-UDIM painting!
Public Domain Textures | Free 4K Textures
New website for CC0 textures: Public Domain Textures offers a range of materials in up to 8
Download | 40 Free Blood Textures
For anyone entering a blood frenzy at the start of the contemplative Christmas season: here are 40 free blood textures!
Material Maker | Procedural Textures
Generate procedural PBR textures without an Adobe subscription? Material Maker by Rodolphe Suescun offers a way out.
Free Download: Hundreds of 4K Materials
And to fill the next hard drive too: Share Textures offers you a large number of free 4K textures!
Free Sculpting Brushes
Another one for the asset collection: You can expand your environment toolsets with these sculpting brushes.
More Quixel Megascans Assets
Quixel cuts prices: The Megascans asset library reaches the 10,000 mark and turns the price screw!
The New Unreal Engine Is Here | 4.23
Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23, the new version of the game engine—which is intended to be used increasingly for film, TV and VFX!
Free Environment Set
New assets in the Marketplace: Anyone looking for a substantial environment set should not miss the free offer in August!
Tutorial: Create fabric texture with Blender
A new video tutorial provides insight into how to create fabric fibre textures in Blender.
Web tip: Search engine for textures, materials and HDRIs
Textures.one is a new search engine that allows users to find free materials, textures and HDRIs on popular websites.
Unreal Engine | Free Assets in June
And this month Epic Games is also giving us the next batch of free assets!
Substance Tools 2019.1 | Spring Updates
Substance's first major 2019 update: Designer and Painter add viewport displacement, radial symmetry, resources and more!
GDC 2019 | Texturing für Assassin’s Creed
All GDC 2019 Substance Talks about Material and Texturing Pipelines are online: In addition to Odyssey and Spider-Man, the developers also presented new tools and features.
Let’s Tree | Free Assets
"Make Your Forest Great Again" - fancy a few trees for your next project? These CC0 assets could help...
50 PBR Texture Sets 10K
High-resolution textures on Tumblr: Virtual Shade offers a series of texture sets in PBR format.
InstaLOD: Time is money
There are some things in a 3D artist's workflow that are probably considered rather unpopular. (cough ... unwrapping, retopo ... cough) And even if a kind soul takes pity on them, it still remains time-consuming. InstaLOD from Stuttgart is trying to help all companies from the entire 3D sector (film, games, automotive, etc.) with its software of the same name, and in doing so is speeding up and cleaning up much more than just the two black sheep mentioned.
Quixel Mixer Now Free
Adobe ping-pong: One arrives, the other leaves: Quixel's Mixer is now temporarily free and available as a perpetual licence after the beta.
More Resources from Pixar!
Seamless textures, an iconic teapot, a lookdev studio and other assets: What's in Pixar RenderMan's resource portal?
3DS Max: Randomised Bitmaps
Directly from Autodesk comes a free YouTube tutorial about the proper use of randomised bitmaps.
For All Unreal Fans: Monthly Free Content!
Epic Games keeps its word: Back in November, the company announced free content on its own Marketplace for all UE4 users.
Free Textures on Share Textures
Almost 200 textures have now gathered on this platform. Free and cheerfully ready to be downloaded!
A Christmas Present from the Ninja
A generous ninja: fingerprints, blood, graffiti and more textures are now available from Ninja Textures for free under a CC0 licence!
Shading, Lighting & Rendering with Cinema 4D R19 (Part 2)
In the last part of our series, we took a thorough look at the basis of shading, lighting and rendering, namely methods for geometry smoothing and various lighting models / BRDFs. In this part, we will build on this foundation and take an in-depth look at C4D's material system to provide a basis for later work with textures, shaders, lighting and shadows.
Wild West Creature Creation
"Once Upon a Time in the West" – Imagine this soundtrack playing with this tutorial, hehe.
Eisklotz HDRIs Available Free!
Adrian Kubasa has made his HDRIs available free of charge. 29 of them, and most at 16K resolution. Varying in location and time of day.
Texture Haven
Completely crowd-funded, completely free. Texture Haven includes a texture website that makes high-quality textures available entirely free of charge. Also for commercial use!
Substance Plug-in Version 1.0
Together with the release of Autodesk 3ds Max 2019, the first official version of the Substance plug-in for Max is also on the table!
Free Scans: Leaf Textures
Anyone who wants to add leaves to their library can download high-resolution scans here. The leaf textures come in 4K with various texture maps.
Building Displacements in Cinema 4D
With a little hard work, digital images can be converted into 3D models. How? Ewan Davidson shows it in Cinema 4D.
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!
Foundry releases Mari 4.0
Mari 4.0 released by Foundry: The 3D painting tool comes with a cleaner interface, faster project set-ups and Disney's Principled BRDF Shader, among other things
Rendering Houdini’s HeightFields in Real Time
Rendering 2D material with Redshift? Manuel Casasola Merkle shows you how to create HightFields in Houdini 16 and render them in real time. You then no longer have to build separate textures.
Substance Painter 2017.4
A new update for Substance Painter – with layer instancing, Live Link with Unreal Engine 4 support, new textures and a Black Friday sale!
Substance Plug-in for 3ds Max
Allegorithmic’s Substance plug-in is now also available for 3ds Max – allowing you to adjust materials from Substance in 3ds Max.
HDR Vault: 44 Free Maps
A new HDR library from Philip Modin with more than 44 free environment maps: Can be used for commercial and private purposes!
Free Assets: Scans of Rock Ledges
Free environment assets: Environment artist Dmitry Kremiansky offers four scans of rock ledges with 8K to 16K textures!
Poly: Google’s 3D Library
Google's new open 3D library: Poly expands the recently released tools “Blocks” and “Tilt Brush” with an open 3D collection.
Plug-in: From Substance to RenderMan
Free plug-in from Pixar: Anyone who wants to export their materials from Substance for the Pixar renderer can use this useful plug-in.
Free Octane Material Pack for C4D
These 15 material maps for Cinema 4D can be used to design various surface looks.
ShaderMap4 Update: Images into Texture Maps
New free variant of the texture-map generator “ShaderMap”: Now also with Color ID and improved normal-map workflows.
Two Free Brush Packs
For hard surfaces and environments, Andrew Arkin is making these two brush packs available free of charge – for software that supports alpha and height maps.
Ten UV Tips for Blender
Save time with UV unwrapping: Ten useful UV tips, including the latest Blender improvements, multi-object editing, free add-ons and more.
Photogrammetry: Unity Delighting Tool
New free tool for the photogrammetry workflow: With this Unity delighting tool, you can remove shading from lighting conditions.
MaterialX: Open Standard from ILM
New open standard for exchanging materials between applications: ILM and Lucasfilm release the first version of MaterialX.
Cinema 4D Tip: Triplanar Mapping
Seamles maps without UV unwrapping using triplanar mapping: In addition to the quick tip, the C4D files are also included for use as a preset.
Six Free Rocks with 4K Texture
Low-poly rocks by Andrew Alex: The 3D artist offers a total of six low-poly models with 4K textures as a free download.
Update: Substance Designer 2017.1
The new version of Allegorithmic's Substance Designer is available – including improvements to the baking features, Graph Editor and PBR Converter.
From Concrete to Gravel: Free 5K Textures
Freelance 3D concept artist Miloš Belanec offers free textures. They include various texture maps in 5K resolution – some with seamless transitions.
Substance Painter in a New Look
Update for Substance Painter: Alongside a plug-in for the Substance Source Library, there are more than 230 new alphas, filters for glow effects, drop shadows and more.
Free Textures: 15 Burn Marks
New free content from ActionVFX: 15 fresh burn-mark textures as PNGs with alpha channels that you can use for your projects.
Free: Texture Maps from Photos
Create normal, albedo and displacement maps for free: With this tool, you can generate various texture maps from your photos.
Mari Extension Pack 4 Released
More than 50 new features for Mari in the new extension: Included are height-map material blending, Quick Exporter, Radio Nodes and more!
Maxon BodyPaint 3D: Open Beta
OpenGL painting functions for real-time editing in BodyPaint 3D from Maxon: In this beta, you can test the new features.
Substance Designer: Introductory Tutorial Series
From creating base materials and material blending to custom inputs: Allegorithmic offers a good introduction to Substance Designer.
A Little Wood for Breakfast
New free wood textures on Gumroad. A total of four wood packages in beauty, diffuse, specular and other maps. Commercial use is permitted.
Free Materials for Cinema 4D
The free material resources do not stop. C4D Center offers over 80 materials, including height, normal and other texture maps.
130 free textures from Pixar
Free textures from Pixar: A total of 130 seamless textures of clouds, paper and more with tips for shader networks in Renderman.
Qick Tip: Substances in Cinema 4D
Maxon's Quick Tip series continues: In this clip, you see how to use Substances from Allegorithmic in Cinema 4D.
Allegorithmic: Substance Painter 2.5
The Allegorithmic update cascade continues: Substance Painter 2.5 with parallax occlusion mapping, colour management and brush opacity.
Substance Designer, the Sixth
Allegorithmic does not hesitate with its updates: Substance Designer is now available in version 6.0 with many new features such as the scan process, 32-bit support for HDR textures and more!
Up Close: Skin Material from Allegorithmic
Looking for skin materials right now? Substance Source now has 30 new PBR skin materials for your 3D model.
Photogrammetry: 1.3 Update for PhotoScan
New update for Agisoft's photogrammetry tool "PhotoScan." Alongside an overview of the update, free DP articles are included too.
UV Paint: Preview of Version 1.5
GameLogicDesign has released a preview of the Cinema 4D plug-in UV Paint. It lets you paint directly in the viewport—soon with vector graphics as well.
Ambient Occlusion and Substance Designer 5.6
In December, Allegorithmic released an update to Substance Designer. With a comparison to the last version, we show the new functions.
Free Download: 4K Water-Droplet Texture
3D artist Daniel Mozbäuchel used the quiet winter days to create a full-CG Porsche in a rainy environment. The 4K rain texture used in it may be downloaded free of charge.
Vimeo Channel for Modo Geeks
This Vimeo channel is worthwhile for Modo users: it includes a five-part basic training course on creating a 3D scene as well as various workflow tips for Modo 10.2.
Create Underwater Reflections for Free
This free plug-in can be used to create relections in digital water in Howler.
New Shelf for Substance Painter
Allegorithmic has released Substance Painter version 2.4. Here is an overview of the new features.
Free 3D Dogs
SnapTank is currently offering 17 of its 3D scan models of dogs and household objects as free downloads.
Collection of Automotive Materials
Epic's Automotive Material Pack contains 75 material instances from its McLaren 570S configurator demo for the Unreal Engine.
Texture Pack 03 by Joost Vanhoutte
Number 3 of the Texture Pack contains 1,000 non-tiling textures from the United Kingdom, South Korea, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
Test Drive Modo & Mari Challenge
The Foundry and ArtStation have joined forces for the "Test Drive Modo & Mari Challenge", in which there are great prizes to be won.
Thousands of Megascans from Quixel
Swedish scanning studio Quixel has launched the world's largest online scan database as a beta version and is bringing new scan tools.
MatPak for Modo – Interiors III
Part 3 of the interior pack for Modo brings more than 100 realistic surfaces, neatly sorted into categories.
Free Photogrammetry Textures
David Chumilla Liccioli has created tree-bark textures based on photogrammetry meshes and is offering them as a free download.
Substance Painter 2.2
Material Layering, Projection Painting, new scripting options and more are available in the new version of Substance Painter.
Free Octane Material Library for C4D
Nice! Raphael Rau (a.k.a Silverwing) has created free Octane materials that he is now sharing with everyone. The library is designed for Octane 3 for C4D and contains 18 physically plausible materials.
New Material Preset Kit for Modo
"MatPak for Modo - Interior I" provides high-quality surfaces for your own 3D interior scenes.
Free High-Res Textures
Artist David Gruwier has created maps of various textures from surface scans that can be processed in any render engine.
Scrolling text in Cinema 4D
For example, 3D letters are created from glass, plastic and wood, the surface of which peels off - and there are also breakdowns on texturing and lighting.
Substance Plug-in for Houdini
With Allegorithmic's new free plug-in, Houdini users can use procedural textures created with Substance Designer.
Modo 10.1 on the Way
The Foundry announced that Modo version 10.1 is coming soon - with a new procedural modelling system and much more.
Mari in the Non-Commercial Version
The non-commercial version of Mari lacks the full feature set, but the free tool could be useful for private projects or learning texturing.
Detailed 3D Models with AutoModeller Pro
AutoModeller Pro is a new plug-in for Autodesk 3ds Max that can texture 3D meshes with "geometry texture".