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
3D painting
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
ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant
The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Adobe acquires Medium
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
SideFX ships Houdini 18
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
Unity 2019.2 ships
Now shipping: Game engine gets support for denoising lightmaps on CPU and GPU. 3D sculpting tool Polybrush now integrated natively.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 4.9
Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
The Gnomon Workshop ships Introduction to ZBrush
Updated to cover ZBrush 2019: Master digital sculpting with Madeleine Spencer's detailed 21-hour training video.
Monday, May 27th, 2019