Abstract releases InstaMAT 2026 with new Curves Brushes
See what's new in the promising alternative to the Substance tools for texture painting and material authoring. Free to indie artists.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026
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Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 6 R4
Check out the latest features in the free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting software.
Thursday, March 12th, 2026
Adobe previews Substance 3D Designer 16.0
Material authoring software to get a new 3D SDF-based workflow for the Shape Splatter node. See the other features due in the next release.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Scene Group releases Cavalry 2.6
Check out the latest features in the motion design app just acquired by Canva, including a new Mesh solver for creating organic growth effects.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2026
Foundry releases Katana 9.0
Heavyweight lighting and look development tool gets a new 'UsdSuperLayer' and a preview of Hydra 2.0 rendering.
Wednesday, February 18th, 2026
Faceform releases Wrap 2025.11 and Wrap4D 2025.11
Check out the new features in the varied updates to the topology transfer tools for creating 3D characters from scan data.
Friday, December 26th, 2025
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 15.1
Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.
Friday, December 12th, 2025
QuadSpinner unveils Gaea 3.0
Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.
Tuesday, December 9th, 2025
Foundry releases Mari 7.5
3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2025
Faceform releases Wrap 2025.9 and Wrap4D 2025.9
Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2025
Autodesk releases MotionBuilder 2026.1
Check out the changes to the character animation and mocap-editing software, including updates to Relations constraints.
Friday, September 12th, 2025
JangaFX releases GeoGen 0.5
Latest beta build makes the real-time terrain- and planet-generation tool available for macOS, as well as Windows and Linux.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
Abstract releases InstaMAT 2025
Major update sees the hotly tipped 3D texture painting and material authoring tools leave early access. Still free for indie artists.
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2025