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3D painting

Texture painting tool gets new, decluttered UI, better 4K painting performance, option to drag and drop materials.

Friday, March 16th, 2018

First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Workflow-focused update gives the texture-painting app a decluttered new UI and better interoperability with other key VFX pipeline tools.

Wednesday, December 6th, 2017

Texture painting app gets support for layer instancing, live link to UE4 and 20 new procedural materials.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

Now shipping: Update extends the sculpting and painting app's Smart Materials and retopo systems, adds support for RenderMan rendering.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2017

3D texture painting app gets new Anchor Points system for creating smart multi-layer materials, free live linking plugin to Unity.

Sunday, July 30th, 2017

3D texture painting software gets free new Resources Updater plugin, plus new scripting options.

Saturday, April 29th, 2017

Streamlined iPad modelling app is aimed at pro users, and optimised for the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.

Friday, April 7th, 2017

Videos: Update to texture-painting tool makes the node graph more intuitive to use, adds new non-destructive Bake Point node.

Friday, December 16th, 2016

Free set of scripts should help tools developers integrate the VR paint app with production pipelines.

Thursday, October 6th, 2016

Now available: Substance Education licence lets students and teachers use Substance Painter, Designer and B2M for free.

Thursday, August 4th, 2016

Big update to voxel sculpting and painting package adds 'completely remade' PBR shading system, plus neat new low-poly retopology tools.

Saturday, July 9th, 2016

The upcoming OpenGL engine in Cinema 4D's painting toolset should improve interactivity when texturing large assets.

Thursday, June 23rd, 2016