Boris FX ships Silhouette Paint
New touch-up and rig removal plugin makes Silhouette's paint tools available inside compositing apps like Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
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Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
See Materia, Adobe's AI-driven image-to-material system
Neat AI-trained tool for generating 3D materials from single source images due in Substance Alchemist and Adobe Capture.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Eye candy: Adobe's Substance 2020 games reel
Watch a high-speed rundown of the year's most beautiful AAA games, all created using Substance tools.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Get CG software for free during the coronavirus outbreak
Need to work from home? Your CG software may be available free if you use these companies' tools.
Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.1
Update adds new GPU-based lens blur filter with more realistic Bokeh, plus the option to perform multiple Content-Aware Fills in one go.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Future Mac versions of Cinema 4D will need Metal support
Controversial macOS Catalina update recommended for anyone wanting to use Cinema 4D R22.
Friday, February 21st, 2020
Check out the new Substance Source Signature Series
Download two new procedural materials of the controls and panelling of an old steam train for free.
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
Adobe wins tech Emmy Award for Character Animator
Real-time 2D animation app wins Technology & Engineering award for innovations affecting television.
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Get free USDZ file converter and viewer Reality Converter
Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020
Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25
Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.
Wednesday, January 1st, 2020
Adobe unveils Substance Designer 2019.3
Material-authoring software to get new colour management tools, new curvature baker, and UX updates.
Thursday, December 19th, 2019