Autodesk releases Mudbox 2025
Digital sculpting software gets fourth consecutive 'minor update' in four years. See the complete changelog for the release here.
Friday, March 29th, 2024
character modeling
Get Reallusion's five great free animation-ready 3D characters
Download free, fully rigged human characters with Reallusion's animation-friendly CC3+ Base topology. For commercial use.
Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Create stylized facial expressions in ZBrush and Character Creator
[Sponsored] The new ZBrush Face Tools plugin for Character Creator makes crafting expressions for 3D characters easy. Here's how it works.
Monday, February 26th, 2024
Get the free Sculpt Bridge Tool for Blender
Handy add-on creates organic strands between two points on the surface of a 3D model, in a similar way to ZBrush's Slime Bridge.
Thursday, February 15th, 2024
Free tool: sculpt stylized hair with custom ZBrush brush RenHair
Former Overwatch artist Renaud Galand's neat free custom brush sculpts subtly asymmetric strands of hair for stylized 3D characters.
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
Reallusion ships ZBrush Face Tools
New plugin makes it easier to refine head meshes from Character Creator in ZBrush, including sculpting custom expressions.
Tuesday, October 17th, 2023
Pixelmachine releases TopoGun 3
Now officially shipping after three years in beta: pioneering standalone retopology tool gets its first major update in over a decade.
Wednesday, October 4th, 2023
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023.2
Check out the latest features in the sculpting software, including the new Anchors brush and updates to Spotlight and the Morph brush.
Thursday, July 20th, 2023
Autodesk releases Mudbox 2024
No changes to the sculpting app beyond a new Mac installer, but the price of subscriptions rises again.
Tuesday, April 11th, 2023
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023.1
Digital sculpting app gets neat new Proxy Pose and Drop 3D systems, but the new features are currently only available via subscriptions.
Thursday, March 30th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.3
Major update adds USD support to the 3D texture painting software, and revamps baking workflow.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Maxon ships ZBrush 2023
First ever paid update to the digital sculpting software adds new 'Slime Bridge', revamps ZRemesher, and integrates the Redshift renderer.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Sneak peek: ZBrush 2023
See new features from the beta build of the digital sculpting app shown at ZBrush Summit 2022, and Redshift running inside ZBrush.
Thursday, November 17th, 2022