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PBR

See the the new features in the GPU renderers, including better USD support and the option to import and render skinned characters.

Monday, April 14th, 2025

Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

Saturday, March 15th, 2025

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

Check out the new features in the architectural modeling app, also used in concept art, including HDRI lighting and PBR materials.

Monday, March 3rd, 2025

Check out the new features in the GPU renderers, including initial USD support and a complete new animation system.

Monday, December 23rd, 2024

Updated: the new desktop mode in Leopoly's promising digital sculpting app now supports stylus as well as mouse and keyboard.

Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

Promising AI-based virtual projection app extracts actors from video and relights them to match a new background. Try it free in beta.

Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

Machina Fractals: Essence, Machina Fractals: Mecha and new plugin Machina Fractals: Ultima create amazing real-time 3D forms.

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

3D clothing design app gets new PBR texture map generator, plus experimental new generative AI tools for patterns and graphics.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2024

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

Thursday, June 6th, 2024

Material-authoring app gets new generative AI features for creating textures or patterns from text prompts and refererence images.

Friday, May 24th, 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

Check out the new features in the intuitive online modeling app, including the option to upload files from Blender. Can be used for free.

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024