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See what's new in the promising alternative to the Substance tools for texture painting and material authoring. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Promising browser-based app gets a new Classic editor for video editing, as well as editors for 2D and 3D motion design.

Tuesday, February 24th, 2026

Promising hard-surface-focused add-on implements Substance 3D Painter-style layer-based texture painting inside Blender.

Friday, August 15th, 2025

Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Check out the new features in the material authoring software, including updates to the Spline tools and node graph.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Material authoring software gets new color-manipulation nodes for stylizing images and generating color palettes and ID maps.

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

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

Check out games artist Vlad Hirourk's streamlined new Blender add-on for Substance-style layer-based texture painting.

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Neat new app lets you sculpt, model, retopologize and texture game and concept art assets using a single unified set of tools.

Thursday, May 16th, 2024

New online compositing and video editing app was created as an alternative to After Effects, and supports greenscreen removal.

Thursday, February 1st, 2024

Promising new app combines 3D texture painting, node-based material authoring and AI features. Free if you earn under $100k/year.

Thursday, January 25th, 2024

CozyBlanket developers' intriguing new iPad app is a complete 2D/3D tool with a modular scene system 'unlike anything you've ever seen'.

Monday, November 20th, 2023

Popular open-source 3D texture painting software gets a new Smudge tool, group masks, and better OBJ import.

Friday, September 8th, 2023