ArmorPaint 0.8 ships

Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.

Friday, October 22nd, 2021

Discover how to create a lighting template in Katana

Get started with the lighting and look dev software with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed introductory tutorial.

Saturday, September 4th, 2021

Master creature grooming techniques in Houdini

Learn to style digital hair and fur with The Gnomon Workshop's guide to current VFX workflows.

Monday, August 9th, 2021

Insydium launches Fused

New $1,000 product bundle includes all of Insydium's Cinema 4D plugins and asset packs, plus new modelling add-on MeshTools.

Tuesday, July 27th, 2021

Master character look dev in Maya and Arnold

Discover how to light and shade a photorealistic human character with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.

Sunday, July 25th, 2021

Pilgway ships 3DCoatTextura

New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

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

Check out MattePaint 4.0

Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Adobe apologises to asset creators for Substance promos

Uncredited use of Greyscalegorilla and HDRI Haven content in videos for the Substance 3D Collection was 'a mistake'.

Monday, June 28th, 2021

Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.0

Material authoring app formerly known as Substance Alchemist also now creates lighting set-ups.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Check out cool free lightweight modelling app MagicaCSG

Updated: fast, robust Boolean modeler now exports 3D assets to other DCC apps in PLY format.

Monday, June 14th, 2021

D5 Render 1.9 ships

Dimension 5's rapidly evolving RTX-accelerated GPU renderer for 3ds Max and Blender gets new time-and-latitude based sky system.

Friday, May 28th, 2021

Otoy ships Sculptron 1.1

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021