Quixel ships Mixer 2022.1
Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
3D painting
Luxion ships KeyShot 11.3
Check out the latest features in the rendering and technical animation software, and the changes to the separate KeyShot Web Viewer.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.2
Check out the new features in the biggest update to the 3D texturing painting software 'in quite a while'.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Substance 3D Painter will soon export .sbsar files
Sneak peek: see all of the new features due in the October update to Adobe's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9
Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4
3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.
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
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 2022 and 3DCoatTextura 2022
New 2022.35 update lets users sculpt and paint simultaneously with any of 3DCoat's voxel brushes.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Blender 3.2 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D app, from the new 3D painting tools to Light Groups and fast shadow caustics.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Download digital sculpting app Forger for free
Get the base edition of Maxon's iPad sculpting app for free. Update: now available in 10 languages.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Download free virtual reality 3D sketching app Open Brush
Create concept art and VR assets using this promising open-source successor to Google's Tilt Brush.
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
See the new sculpting features due in Blender in 2022
3D painting directly in Sculpt mode and interactive previews in Eevee due in the open-source 3D app in the next few releases.
Monday, February 21st, 2022