All of the Substance 3D tools are now free to students
Use Substance 3D Painter, Sampler, Designer, Stager and Modeler for free, including on portfolio material.
Sunday, October 2nd, 2022
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D5 Render is now free to students and teachers
New D5 Educational licence gives access to all features of the GPU renderer's paid D5 Pro edition.
Monday, September 26th, 2022
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2022.2
Unusual physics-based animation software gets global rotation kinematics, improved auto-posing.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Autodesk launches Maya Creative
Use Maya's core tools for $3/day with this new cut-down edition for freelancers and smaller studios.
Thursday, September 15th, 2022
Boris FX makes Particle Illusion 2022.5 available free
Free standalone edition of the particle generator can now emit particles from imported 3D models.
Friday, August 19th, 2022
Free app Kiri Engine uses AI to edit noise from 3D scans
Promising new AI-enhanced photogrammetry app is available for both Android and iOS phones.
Sunday, August 7th, 2022
Preview: Blender's new hair tools and viewport compositor
Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Get 3DCoatPrint for free
New free edition of 3DCoat lets you create models for 3D printing. Has all of 3DCoat's sculpting tools, and is licensed for commercial use.
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022
Adobe launches Photoshop on the web
Updated: browser-based edition of Photoshop will have 'freemium' pricing once it comes out of beta.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2022
Nekki ships Cascadeur 2022.1
Physics-based animation software gets Constraints system for weapons, plus new Node Editor and Python API for technical artists.
Saturday, April 16th, 2022
Download digital sculpting app Forger for free
Get the base edition of Maxon's iPad sculpting app for free. Update: now available in 10 languages.
Thursday, March 3rd, 2022
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2022.1
Real-time visualisation tool gets new GPU path tracer, HDRI skydomes, support for point clouds.
Thursday, January 13th, 2022
Escape Motions releases Rebelle 5
Updated: Natural media painting app gets new $19.99 Rebelle 5 Personal edition for portfolio work.
Monday, December 20th, 2021