Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.3.1
Latest update to the material authoring software adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 12.1
Material-authoring software gets USD import and export, new nodes to create and render 3D textures.
Wednesday, April 27th, 2022
Sneak peek: Content-Aware Fill in Substance 3D Sampler
Neat Photoshop-style feature automatically removes unwanted details from all channels of a material at once.
Thursday, March 24th, 2022
You can play Super Mario Bros inside Substance 3D Designer
Quinton Qu's incredible feat of visual programming wins Adobe's 2021 Substance 3D Designer Insanity Award.
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.2
Material authoring tool gets new Physical Size system for scanned materials, new Cloth Weave filter.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Get free Substance Designer add-on Trimsheet Maker Pro
Games artist Nathaniel Albright's neat free tool combines multiple materials into a single texture map.
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Foundry ships Katana 5.0
Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2022.3
3D modeling and rendering tool gets Per Viewport Filtering options, further updates to Smart Extrude.
Wednesday, December 8th, 2021
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Designer 11.3
Material authoring app's neat new particle nodes open up workflows from scattering to 3D plant design.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021