Corel ships Painter 2015 & new Painter Mobile app
Desktop edition gets interesting new physics-based particle brushes; free Android app lets you paint on the go.
Friday, August 15th, 2014
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The Foundry ships Modo 801
'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.
Friday, April 25th, 2014
Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 9.1
VFX-friendly paint app adds support for GPU-accelerated rendering, compositing-focused new Crop tool.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2014
Leopoly puts ZBrush-like tools inside your web browser
Not too many of them yet, mind, but Leonar3do's free online sculpting and 3D painting tool is well worth a look.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013
Aartform releases Curvy 3D 3.0
Cheap, intuitive modeller strengthens toolset with new ZBrush-like mesh subdivision and decimation systems.
Tuesday, September 24th, 2013
Project Dogwaffle team announces Howler 9
VFX-friendly digital paint package adds GI render engine, side-by-side filter display, Linux support via Wine.
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013
Pilgway ships 3D-Coat 4.0
Now out of beta: voxel sculpting package gets new Live Clay dynamic mesh system and 3D paint tools.
Thursday, May 30th, 2013
The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Discover the new features of 3D-Coat 4.0
Pilgway posts nice new video tour of its voxel sculpting package. But still no word on when 4.0 is out of beta.
Tuesday, April 16th, 2013
The Foundry ships Mari 2.0
Update to the 3D paint package adds "the next generation of layers": think Photoshop, but with a twist.
Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Autodesk updates meshmixer08
Updated: Free modelling tool gets neat new option to show if models will stand up when 3D printed.
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Download PD Pro 5 for free
And unlike Photoshop CS2, your copy of this painting and image-editing package is definitely legal.
Thursday, January 10th, 2013
The Foundry ships Mari 1.6
And you can finally use it with AMD GPUs, if you have a mid-to-high-end card. New vector paint tools, too.
Thursday, December 20th, 2012