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Promising 3D texture painting and material authoring tools come out of early access next week. Check out the features due in the update.

Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

Download scan-based PBR texture sets of common interior and exterior materials at up to 8K resolution. For commercial use.

Sunday, July 6th, 2025

Next-gen video-to-PBR AI model lets artists relight video footage without manual 3D reconstruction. Free in the Beeble Studio web app.

Saturday, July 5th, 2025

Get three 3D scanned mountains from the neat new asset library for kitbashing environments for VFX and concept art. Commercial use.

Tuesday, July 1st, 2025

Download free assets from Oleg Ushenok's incredible new kitbash asset pack. FBX format, with PBR textures, for commercial use.

Sunday, June 22nd, 2025

Updated for version 1.2: Intuitive layer-based texture painting add-on for Blender now supports shader layers and texture baking.

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

Promising AI-based virtual projection app extracts actors from video and relights them to match a new background. Try it free in beta.

Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

Data-preparation service converts models between 3D formats, remeshes them or generates LODs. Integrates directly into Blender.

Tuesday, August 20th, 2024

Get VFX artist Cristian Spagnuolo's free library of retopologized scans of real-world statues. OBJ format, 8K textures, for commercial use.

Sunday, August 18th, 2024

Material authoring software gets new color-manipulation nodes for stylizing images and generating color palettes and ID maps.

Thursday, August 1st, 2024

3D clothing design app gets new PBR texture map generator, plus experimental new generative AI tools for patterns and graphics.

Tuesday, June 18th, 2024

New version of the plugin for round-tripping assets between Character Creator and ZBrush now transfers surface color and detail.

Friday, June 7th, 2024

Maya edition of the renderer gets support for MaterialX, initial support for LookdevX, and the option to scatter lights with Chaos Scatter.

Monday, February 19th, 2024