Corel ships Painter Essentials 7
Sub-$50 digital painting app gets new AI-based tools to give source photos the look of drawings or oil, watercolor or acrylic paintings.
Thursday, October 10th, 2019
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Corel ships Painter 2020
Major update to the digital painting software adds GPU support, plus a built-in Brush Accelerator utility, and revamps the colour picker.
Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 4
Unique digital painting software gets more particle systems, new brush editor, symmetry painting.
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
OpenToonz developers release OpenToonz 1.3
Open-source 2D animation tool gets new text generator effect, plus touchscreen support on Windows.
Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.4
Low-cost digital painting tool gets real-time preview for clone sources, new reverse image search feature.
Friday, July 27th, 2018
Anastasiy ships MagicPicker 6
Popular Photoshop and Illustrator colour wheel add-on gets neat new cube picker, Pantone support, new UI modes and keyboard shortcuts.
Tuesday, March 27th, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.0
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
Pixel Splincher releases Bricolage 2.0 for iOS
Node-based compositing system for iPads gets new colour grading tools, including support for LUTs.
Saturday, November 18th, 2017
Chaos Group releases V-Ray 3.6 for SketchUp
Big update to the SketchUp edition of the renderer adds support for viewport rendering and hybrid CPU/GPU renders.
Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Sneak peek: Mari 3.3
Corrected: Changes include option to re-edit paint already committed to a model. Radically decluttered new GUI due in a future release.
Monday, April 24th, 2017
Project Dogwaffle teams ships PD Artist 11
$20 digital painting app gets new floating colour picker and new interactive gradient editing tool.
Tuesday, April 18th, 2017
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11
VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.
Friday, March 17th, 2017
The Krita Foundation releases Krita 3.1.2
Updated: Open-source painting app gets early support for audio in the new 2D animation toolset.
Saturday, February 11th, 2017