CGEcho brings you October’s handpicked selection of totally free tools and assets from Fab and ArtStation! Explore gorgeous Alpine backdrops, advanced MetaHuman hair workflows, thousands of Unreal Engine animations, powerful Blender addons, and more to boost your creative work.
Welcome to CGEcho’s October roundup, where we’ve carefully compiled a selection of entirely free, top-quality digital assets and utilities from Fab and ArtStation just for you. This month’s picks are meant to level up your 3D scenes, advance your game development, and improve your architectural visualizations — all at no cost!
Stunning Environments & ArchViz Essentials
To start, enrich your scenes with lifelike vistas using AlpineScapes 8K by Robin Roeske. This remarkable bundle delivers photoreal mountain ranges in five color variants (daylight, sunset, dusk, cold, warm) and includes 4K alternatives for better performance. Ideal for archviz, cinematic shots, nature renders, and concept backgrounds, these drop-in backplates are tuned for Blender’s EEVEE and Cycles without requiring displacement. Check out the full AlpineScapes 8K pack on ArtStation, and download the 5 Free 4K Mountains (Non-Commercial) today! Watch them in action and learn more via this video:
For interior renders, Interior Models delivers a refined Minimalist Black & White Bathroom Interior Scene ready to render in Blender 3D. This polished scene includes detailed 3D models and organized materials prepared for the Blender Asset Browser. It’s perfect for presenting furniture, lighting, or as a base for your own designs. Find this tasteful scene and more on ArtStation.
Advanced Character & Animation Tools
Character artists will appreciate IamSH1VA’s detailed tutorial and free project files for crafting Unreal Engine 5 MetaHuman Parametric Grooms with Blender. His full workflow fills the gap left by limited official Blender support for MetaHuman groom kits, letting you create parametric hair and one-click hair cards for MetaHuman characters in UE5.6. The free bundle includes all project files (Unreal project, Blender project, groom Alembic files, and MetaHuman package) on Fab.com, plus the essential Blender Groom Exporter Plugin. Watch the complete tutorial:
Boost your game projects with over 5300 Triple A Unreal Engine 5 Animations, generously shared by Zero2GameDev. This extensive collection contains humanoid animations from Paragon characters, retargeted to Manny for straightforward use in Unreal Engine 5.4 and 5.5. Rather than an 80GB download, this pack is a compact 2GB containing just the animation clips — ideal for prototyping, learning, and conserving storage. Download the animations from Fab.com or via the Google Drive link. Learn more about it:
Essential Blender Workflow Enhancers
Streamline your Blender texturing with the Decal Beast V1.0 Addon from ArtStation. This comprehensive tool enables non-destructive, layer-based decal workflows with features like instant drag-and-drop onto multiple objects, quick color and roughness tweaks, custom graffiti generation using 25+ fonts, dynamic aging and grime effects, and one-click baking to save GPU memory. The free core version includes essential features to get you started — applying decals across materials and objects, sliding, and aging effects. Get the free version here.
Unreal Engine Game Development Starters
Jumpstart your Unreal Engine work with Tibeuru’s Enhanced Third Person Template – Basic from Fab.com. Based on Unreal’s default Third Person Template, this package upgrades player controls and camera behaviour with added features like crouch and sprint, a closer cinematic camera that improves player orientation, idle camera rotation, and camera-relative movement — all set up for keyboard/mouse. It’s a great foundation for developers who want improved movement and camera systems without extra plugins. Find it on Fab.com.
This October’s collection is packed with essential resources to elevate your 3D projects across various platforms. Don’t miss out on these incredible freebies! If you missed last month’s free assets collection, you can view it here.
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AlpineScapes 8K
Unreal Engine 5 MetaHuman Parametric Grooms ( + Hair Cards 🤯 ) using BLENDER 🔥 | Tutorial
Get 5300 Triple A Unreal Engine 5 Animations for Free
ArtStation – Minimalist Black & White Bathroom | Realistic Interior – Ready To Render | Architectural Visualization | Blender 3D | Game Assets
ArtStation – Decal Beast V1.0– All In One Decal Addon | Game Assets
ArtStation – AlpineScape 8K | Game Assets
Blender MetaHuman Groom Starter + Hair Cards (with complete workflow)
Tibeuru’s Enhanced Third Person Template – Basic
Paragon animations retargeted to Manny
