Red Giant releases Magic Bullet Suite 14.0
Suite of colour grading plugins gets its first major update in four years. Check out the new features here.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020
HDR
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
Krita Foundation ships Krita 4.4
Open-source painting software gets scriptable fill layers, support for dynamic colour gradients, and improved MyPaint colour picker.
Monday, October 19th, 2020
Check out Nomad: a neat new iOS and Android sculpting app
Promising new app lets artists sculpt, paint and remesh detailed models on iPads or Android tablets.
Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Sneak peek: Substance Alchemist's IBL creation system
New feature in Adobe's material authoring app will turn source photos into HDR environments.
Friday, July 31st, 2020
Crytek posts its 2021 CryEngine roadmap
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25
See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020
Download Nvidia's free Texture Tools Exporter 2020.1
Create compressed textures for games with this neat Photoshop plugin and standalone application.
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
Check out open-source 3D painting tool ArmorPaint
Version 0.7 of the Substance Painter-like texture painting tool adds live links to UE4 and Unity.
Monday, January 13th, 2020
Adobe ships Photoshop 21.0
Image-editing and painting tool gets neat AI-driven object selection tool; improved Content-Aware Fill, image warping and HDR editing.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2019
RealityCapture gets new 'pay-per-input' pricing
New pricing makes the powerful photogrammetry tool available for a mimum payment of just over $20.
Wednesday, September 11th, 2019
Adobe releases Substance in Maya 2.0
'Complete rewrite' of the free Maya Substance plugin adds support for 8K textures, numerical output, Python scripting.
Friday, July 19th, 2019
Get Alex Senechal's five free 10,000 x 5,000px studio HDRIs
Download five high-resolution synthetic HDRIs mimicking real-world studio lighting set-ups, for use in portfolio work.
Sunday, July 7th, 2019