Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.4
Next-gen texturing tool gets new AO channel - plus much-requested option to paint straight lines.
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
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Autodesk releases Meshmixer 2.9
Intuitive app for creating mashups of 3D models gets proper support for UV texture maps, new pivot tools.
Friday, May 1st, 2015
Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter
Master the next-gen texturing tool with a four-hour video guide from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
BUF to release complete in-house set of VFX tools
Bcreative and Bpipeline product suites cover the studio's full range of tools, from 3D and compositing to asset management.
Monday, March 9th, 2015
Allegorithmic unveils Substance Painter 1.3
Games texturing tool to get new Smart Materials system, texture bakers, improved viewport display.
Friday, February 20th, 2015
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.0
Much-anticipated next-gen games texture-painting tool finally ships. Check out the key features here.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2014
Try new Maya-style menus in Blender 2.72
Now officially released: update adds optional Hotbox-style pie menus, improved texture-painting system.
Monday, October 6th, 2014
Polygonal Design releases Unfold3D Generation 8
UV unwrapping tool now handles million-triangle meshes and outputs multi-grid UVs for use in Mari.
Thursday, June 6th, 2013
Q&A: Rango and Hulk texture painter Justin Holt
The industry veteran provides his character-painting tips, and reveals what's hot in Mari 2.0.
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
The Foundry ships Mari 1.6
And you can finally use it with AMD GPUs, if you have a mid-to-high-end card. New vector paint tools, too.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012
Quixel releases beta of dDo Photoshop 'super-plugin'
Powerful new tool automates process of creating realistically distressed games textures, looks awesome.
Thursday, November 29th, 2012
Mari 1.2 now shipping
Texturing tool gets new mirror function, fractal noise shaders and Python integration - but no official support for ATI GPUs yet.
Thursday, January 27th, 2011