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
HDR
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
Tandent Vision Science launches Lightbrush Cloud
New online service splits images into surface colour and illumination maps, to create de-lighted textures.
Wednesday, June 26th, 2019
RandomControl launches Maverick Studio
Updated: new visualisation tool from the creators of the Arion renderer gets perpetual licences.
Tuesday, June 18th, 2019
BrioVR lets you build VR and AR scenes in your browser
New cloud-based platform lets users turn standard 3D models into interactive VR and AR experiences.
Saturday, June 15th, 2019
Get Quake II with real-time ray tracing and PBR materials
Now available to download: Nvidia updates the 1997 shooter for real-time path tracing on Turing GPUs.
Monday, June 10th, 2019
Crytek posts 2019-2020 CryEngine roadmap
CryEngine 5.6 to add layered microfacet materials. CryEngine 5.7 to see real-time ray tracing, big animation update.
Monday, May 13th, 2019
Academy Software Foundation to host OpenEXR, OpenCue
Industry open-source initiative to 'support and drive collaboration' around OpenCue render manager.
Friday, May 3rd, 2019
Master environment art workflows for videogames
Get started with Naughty Dog artist Martin Teichmann's new series of videos for The Gnomon Workshop.
Saturday, March 16th, 2019
FXhome ships Imerge Pro 2.0
Interesting RAW-focused still image editor gets GPU-based import engine, new context-sensitive workflow, and 16-bit image export.
Wednesday, February 6th, 2019