Download Marmoset's free materials for Toolbag 4
Library Drop 05 makes over 200 new materials and textures available for the real-time rendering software, plus a new set of Smart Masks.
Sunday, November 12th, 2023
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Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Boris FX ships Silhouette Paint
New touch-up and rig removal plugin makes Silhouette's paint tools available inside compositing apps like Nuke and After Effects.
Thursday, April 16th, 2020
Allegorithmic releases Substance Alchemist 0.6
Latest beta of the next-gen material creation tool adds option to create collections of material variations.
Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
Eye candy: Next Limit's Realflow 2015 showreel
See the best new work created in RealFlow: from water to huge sand sims - and even a zero-gravity egg.
Thursday, August 13th, 2015
Videos: the best of Siggraph 2015's technical papers
Watch our pick of the show's hottest research - from recreating fine skin details to simulating mayonnaise.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015
Creation Effects releases Creation Art Effects
New After Effects template mimics natural media and print effects, from ink and paint to pencil scribble.
Friday, March 27th, 2015
Mix digital colours like paint with MixColors 1.2
Physically accurate $19 Photoshop plugin lets users mix colours as if they were real oils or watercolours.
Tuesday, July 29th, 2014
SGO ships Mamba FX 2.0
Check out this $320 node-based compositor for Windows, Linux and Mac from the makers of Mistika.
Friday, July 18th, 2014
Paint your crowd sims with Golaem Crowd 3.2
Maya crowd simulator adds option to control actor density and behaviour simply by painting on the ground.
Thursday, April 17th, 2014
Read e-on software's FAQs for The Plant Factory
Promising standalone plant-creation system to feature node graph and option to 'paint' plants manually.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013
Autodesk releases 123D Creature
Fun iPad app sculpts and poses characters via a skeletal system, then readies them for 3D printing.
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Krita 2.6 adds support for OpenColorIO, layered PSDs
Open-source paint tool will 'soon be the standard' for 2D work in VFX on Linux, says ex-Digital Domain TD.
Friday, February 8th, 2013