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Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine and real-time renderer, from better area lighting to HDR output.

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2026

Unity artists get updates to the Shader and VFX Graphs, but OptiX denoising and the Built-In Render Pipeline are both deprecated.

Monday, June 22nd, 2026

Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.

Thursday, June 18th, 2026

Updated: Sparseal's promising texture painting app is now available for Apple Silicon Macs, as well as Windows machines and iPads.

Sunday, May 17th, 2026

Latest update to the veteran digital sketching and concept art software adds new Lasso Select and Draw Outline tools.

Monday, April 27th, 2026

Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

Tuesday, January 27th, 2026

Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a new viewport renderer, and initial support for quadrupeds.

Thursday, November 27th, 2025

Free 3D scanning app for Android and iOS phones gets automated background removal and new tools for cleaning up scans.

Saturday, November 22nd, 2025

Affordable 24-inch pen display for professional 2D and 3D artists supports 10-point multi-touch and 16,384 levels of pressure sensitivity.

Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

New $900 14-inch Android tablet works as both a standalone drawing tablet - and potentially, as a wireless pen display, for both 2D and 3D art.

Saturday, October 4th, 2025

Mobile edition of Nekki's AI-assisted animation software now works on Android tablets, See the other new features in Cascadeur Mobile 1.5.

Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

Major update to the real-time visualization app adds support for Nanite and the Unreal VCam virtual camera app. Free to indie artists.

Wednesday, October 1st, 2025

Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine. including updates to lighting, shading and animation.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2025