Maxon acquires forger
Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
3D painting
Tilt Brush goes open source
Google stops development of its virtual reality 3D painting and concept art app, but users can now compile it free from source code.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
Foundry ships Mari 4.7
3D texture painting tool gets new options for creating and sharing procedural masks, isolating materials, and baking textures.
Friday, December 11th, 2020
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to ZBrush 2021
Master the industry-standard 3D sculpting software with over 50 hours of detailed video training.
Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
Quixel ships Mixer 2020.1.6
Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
Pixologic releases ZBrushCore 2021
Cut-down version of ZBrush gets automatic retopology, dynamic subdivision, and MicroPoly 'cloth'.
Friday, September 18th, 2020
Adobe releases Medium 2.4
First Adobe release of the virtual reality sculpting tool adds features intended to help users create more complex sculpts, better FBX export.
Friday, August 28th, 2020
Check out Nomad: a neat new iOS and Android sculpting app
Promising new app lets artists sculpt, paint and remesh detailed models on iPads or Android tablets.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Download Cinema 4D painting add-on 4D Paint for free
Get Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's handy real-time projection painting add-on free for Cinema 4D R20+.
Tuesday, July 21st, 2020
Foundry releases Mari 4.6v4
See the new local space transform mode and updates to baking workflow in the 3D texturing tool. Now available on macOS again.
Thursday, July 16th, 2020
Download ZBrushCoreMini: the new free edition of ZBrush
Check out this streamlined free entry-level edition of Pixologic's industry-standard sculpting tool.
Thursday, June 11th, 2020
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 4.9.34
New stable build of the sculpting and painting tool adds support for Megascans materials; updates the Cloth tool and Blender live link.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.1 and Maya LT 2020.1
Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020