Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2025 and 3DCoatTextura 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D sculpting and retopology software, and its cut-down edition for texturing work.
Wednesday, June 25th, 2025
GLSL
Scene Group releases Cavalry 2.4
Next-gen motion design software gets new noise shader and support for custom filters, plus the option to deform images using 2D meshes.
Thursday, May 15th, 2025
5 key features in Blender 4.2
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from new digital sculpting tools and GPU compositing to 'Eevee Next'.
Tuesday, July 16th, 2024
Insydium ships Fused 2023.3
Major update to the Cinema 4D plugins includes new versions of X-Particles, NeXus, plant generator Taiao and terrain tool TerraformFX.
Wednesday, July 5th, 2023
Autograph 2023.6 is available
USD-based motion design and VFX software gets new tools to apply textures to deforming surfaces, for digital makeup and logo work.
Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
Chaos ships V-Ray 6 for Maya
Check out the new features in the Maya edition of the renderer, from Enmesh geometry replication to support for USD volume shaders.
Wednesday, August 31st, 2022
Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting
Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker
Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.
Sunday, January 26th, 2020
Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020