FrameRef is a neat new reference board for 3D and concept work
Promising GPU-accelerated tool for organizing your visual reference material even lets you drag and drop videos directly from YouTube.
Wednesday, February 4th, 2026
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 10.0
3D texture painting software gets streamlined new workflow for handling text, and support for Adobe Illustrator .ai files.
Friday, May 17th, 2024
5 key features in Blender 4.1
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D app, from better baking to improvements to Cycles and the Sequencer.
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 9.1
3D texture painting and material authoring software gets SVG import, new drag and drop workflows, and better handling of translucency.
Tuesday, November 7th, 2023
BRIO's Ultra Render does path traced rendering in a browser
Cloud-based AR, VR and rendering platform gets 'world's first real-time web GPU path traced rendering'.
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
RandomControl launches Maverick Indie
New half-price edition of spectral GPU renderer Maverick Studio is aimed at DCC work, not CAD users.
Friday, September 6th, 2019
Anastasiy ships MagicTints 1.2
Updated: AI-trained Photoshop plugin for transferring the colour palette from one image to another now supports batch processing.
Monday, August 5th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
Valkyrie Engine lets artists create AR apps without coding
New game engine lets users create iOS augmented reality apps via a simple drag-and-drop workflow.
Monday, November 19th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2018.1
Texture painting tool gets new, decluttered UI, better 4K painting performance, option to drag and drop materials.
Friday, March 16th, 2018
Open-source game engine Godot reaches 2.1 release
Free engine gets new plugin API, work-in-progress online asset library, and improved font support.
Saturday, August 13th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.6
Latest update smooths 4K texture painting and adds new drag and drop workflow for material layering.
Friday, October 30th, 2015