Act-3D ships Lumion 2023.0
Major update to the visualisation tool adds support for real-time ray tracing on AMD and Nvidia GPUs. Now available subscription-only.
Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
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Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.2
Check out the new features in the biggest update to the 3D texturing painting software 'in quite a while'.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Substance 3D Painter will soon export .sbsar files
Sneak peek: see all of the new features due in the October update to Adobe's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
ftrack ships ftrack Studio 4.10
Check out the new features in ftrack's cloud-based production tracking and shot review system for visual effects and animation work.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Chaos Czech releases Corona Renderer 7
Updated: 3ds Max and Cinema 4D editions of the renderer both ship. Check out their new features here.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Pulze ships Post Manager 1.2
Arch viz workflow tool automates assembly of Photoshop files from elements rendered in V-Ray, Corona - and now FStormRender.
Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Get over 600 sets of free PBR textures from Texture Box
Download sets of texture maps for bricks, concrete, wood and plaster at 4,096 x 4,096px resolution.
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
Quixel ships Quixel Mixer 2018.2
Intuitive app for blending scanned materials gets new Eye Dropper tool, better straight line painting.
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Pixar ships free edition of RenderMan 22
Non-commercial edition gets new 'live rendering' workflow, lighting tech used on movies like Coco.
Monday, September 10th, 2018
Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 2.5
Update to texture-painting tool adds brush opacity, LUT-based colour management, option to bake 8K textures.
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2017
3d-io releases Exr-IO 1.02 for Photoshop
Updated: Handy free plugin lets PS load or save multi-layer EXR files. Now supports batch processing.
Tuesday, February 21st, 2017
Oculus ships its Quill and Medium VR art tools
Videos: New virtual reality painting and sculpting tools come free with the new Oculus Touch controller.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3.1
Toolkit for turning source images into games texture maps gets new PBR shaders, new emissive and opacity outputs.
Wednesday, September 9th, 2015