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New non-commercial edition lets you use the suite of VR sculpting and character rigging tools for personal projects.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2021

Digital painting app gets Photoshop-style Adjustment layers, improved layer masking, plus image alignment guides and grids.

Wednesday, July 21st, 2021

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021

Cinema 4D developer buys the veteran digital sculpting app. Creator Javier Edo joins Maxon as a principal software developer.

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021

Neat natural media paint package gets new thick oil paint system, true RYB colour mixing for watercolours.

Sunday, December 20th, 2020

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

Native version of Photoshop for iPad gets option to refine edges of selections to improve cutouts.

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

Major update to the Cinema 4D physics plugin adds powerful new fluids, flocking and scattering tools.

Saturday, July 4th, 2020

Nice workflow update gives the open-source image editor Photoshop-like tool groups, faster PSD import, new 3D Transform tool.

Monday, March 2nd, 2020

New VR tool suite lets users sculpt, rig and pose 3D characters via Oculus or HTC Vive controllers

Tuesday, December 17th, 2019

Update extends the 3D texturing app's procedural materials system, adds V-Ray and 3Delight shaders, and streamlines the node graph.

Wednesday, November 6th, 2019

Blender 2.80 ships

Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.

Wednesday, July 31st, 2019

Major update to the digital painting software adds GPU support, plus a built-in Brush Accelerator utility, and revamps the colour picker.

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019