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
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Download the release candidate of TopoGun 3
Long-awaited update to the pioneering standalone retopology tool inches closer to a final release.
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Download 90 free high-poly 3D plant models from Maxtree
Get tree, plant and grass models in FBX, 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D formats. For commercial use.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Sampler 3.1
Material authoring tool once known as Substance Alchemist gets new Color Picker, support for SVG files.
Wednesday, September 29th, 2021
Adobe discontinues Photoshop's 3D features
Still available in current builds for a 'short time', but users are advised to switch to the Substance apps.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2021
Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting
Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Intel releases Open Image Denoise 1.4
Check out this major update to the CPU-based render denoising system used in Blender and Unity.
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Autodesk ships Flame 2022
Compositing, finishing and effects software gets new machine-learning-based camera tracker, NDI support for remote review sessions.
Wednesday, April 14th, 2021
Wysilab ships Instant Terra 1.15
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including new options for searching for and importing real-world terrain data.
Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Pixar ships RenderMan 23.5
Update to the production renderer adds new motion blur algorithm for volumes, and improves support for Houdini's Solaris layout toolset.
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2020
AutoMAT makes Marmoset Toolbag materials for you
Neat €3 plugin assembles folders of texture maps into PBR materials for 'even the messiest scenes'.
Thursday, September 10th, 2020
Download Pawel Olas's free packs of PBR leaf textures
Get free PBR texture packs from the creator of LightWave plugin treesDesigner. Commercial use.
Sunday, June 28th, 2020
Reallusion previews SkinGen
Neat new skin-generation toolset for Character Creator generates detailed human skin complete with pores, wrinkles, blemishes and hair.
Monday, June 1st, 2020