Maxon acquires forger
Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.
Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
iOS
Adobe ships Photoshop 22.2 and Photoshop on the iPad 2.1
Image editing apps get new cloud collaboration tools. Desktop edition gets new vector shape controls.
Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Serif ships Affinity Photo 1.9 and Affinity Designer 1.9
Image-editing and vector design apps get external file referencing, GPU acceleration on Windows 10.
Monday, February 8th, 2021
Savage Interactive ships Procreate Pocket 4.0
Big update brings the iPhone edition of the drawing and painting app in line with the iPad version.
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
Download VR modelling tool Gravity Sketch for free
Powerful virtual reality design tool now free to individual artists, including OBJ, FBX, IGES export.
Tuesday, January 26th, 2021
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
Polycam turns your iPad Pro into a real-time LIDAR scanner
Updated - now on iPhone Pro too: neat $12 app builds up 3D scans of objects as you walk around them.
Thursday, November 5th, 2020
Check out Laan Labs' free iPad 3D Scanner App
Capture textured 3D scans of objects or environments using the LIDAR sensor on the new iPad Pro.
Sunday, October 4th, 2020
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
Savage Interactive ships Procreate 5X
Check out the new filters, brush effects and colour sampling features in this sizeable update to the iPad painting app.
Monday, September 21st, 2020
Adobe ships Fresco 1.9
Natural media painting and vector drawing app for iOS and Windows devices gets new brush previews, plus support for clipping masks.
Thursday, August 20th, 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
CamTrackAR exports camera tracks to Blender for free
FXhome's iOS camera tracking app also exports to HitFilm; the paid version exports to After Effects.
Tuesday, August 4th, 2020