Epic Games has made game art outsourcing firm Laertes Studios‘ kit of modular 3D assets for creating fantasy interior environments available to download for free. The appropriately titled Fantasy Interior Environment kit comprises 182 individual assets, including furniture, books, lamps, a fireplace, pots and pans. The asset pack forms part of Epic’s free...

Architectural visualization firm and tools developer polygoniq has released engon, a free, open-source asset browser for Blender. The tool, previously built into polygoniq’s asset libraries, provides advanced filtering options, built-in scattering tools, and the option to convert assets to linked files. The asset libraries – botaniq, traffiq, aquatiq and...

Nodes Interactive – aka games artist and tools developer Piotr Popek – has released the Sculpt Bridge Tool, a new free modeling add-on for Blender. The add-on enables users to create 3D strands connecting two selected parts of a mesh, in a similar way to ZBrush’s Slime Bridge tool, or to punch out a tunnel connecting them. Generate organic-looking 3D...