3D painting

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

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

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

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

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