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3D painting

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

Cut-down version of ZBrush gets automatic retopology, dynamic subdivision, and MicroPoly 'cloth'.

Friday, September 18th, 2020

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

Promising new app lets artists sculpt, paint and remesh detailed models on iPads or Android tablets.

Saturday, August 8th, 2020

Get Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's handy real-time projection painting add-on free for Cinema 4D R20+.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

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

Check out this streamlined free entry-level edition of Pixologic's industry-standard sculpting tool.

Thursday, June 11th, 2020

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

Maya gets new integration plugin for Rokoko's mocap library, better Bifrost performance, support for painting 16K textures.

Thursday, March 19th, 2020

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.

Monday, January 13th, 2020

Firm acquires VR modelling and painting app from Facebook. Some staff to move to Adobe to work on the 'next generation of 3D tools'.

Tuesday, December 10th, 2019

Major update to Houdini adds new look dev and layout system Solaris, USD-native renderer Karma, new modelling and simulation tools.

Wednesday, November 27th, 2019