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See what's new in the promising alternative to the Substance tools for texture painting and material authoring. Free to indie artists.

Thursday, March 12th, 2026

Popular hair plugin for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine is now available free to educational institutions and students worldwide.

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025

Digital painting and animation tool gets new accompanying web-based apps, including a complete low-poly 3D landscape generator.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Saturday, March 28th, 2026

Digital sculpting software gets its sixth consecutive annual update with no new features listed, but the price of annual subscriptions is up.

Friday, March 27th, 2026

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR materials in USD files, and updates to the rendering and animation toolsets.

Friday, March 27th, 2026

New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the Maya fluid dynamics plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Thursday, March 26th, 2026

New features in the character animation and mocap-editing software include new quaternion math tools for complex rigs.

Thursday, March 26th, 2026