BetaNews reported yesterday that NVidia has this week released the fianl version of Gelato 2.1, the company's GPU-accellerated 3D rendering tool.  Originally designed for film and animation, it now can be used for design work and game development.  The cool part is that it's 100% free and comes in various flavors for operating systems ranging from Windows XP to RedHat and SuSE Linux.

This may be a neat app for would-be animators to play with.  The only catch is you have to be using an NVidia card newer than a Quadro FX 500 or a GeForce FX 5 series.

For more information, check out the official site.