Get Adobe's Substance and Mixamo plugins for Blender
Updated: new free plugin for editing Substance materials inside Blender now also works on Linux.
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021
SBSAR
Get the free RenderMan for Substance Painter 24.1 plugin
Open source plugin now converts Substances to RenderMan's new Lama materials, for use in Blender, Houdini or Maya.
Wednesday, August 4th, 2021
Adobe backs Blender Development Fund
Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.
Thursday, July 22nd, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 7.2
3D texture painting app gets better auto UV unwrapping, support for the new Adobe Standard Material.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance 3D Designer 11.2
Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.
Thursday, June 24th, 2021
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.0
Real-time rendering toolkit gets new GPU-accelerated ray tracing system, new 3D painting toolset.
Monday, April 5th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2022
Sizeable update to the 3D software adds 'full USD integration', new VR modelling app, and new character rigging and animation features.
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021
Download the new free materials on Substance Source
Get 25 free scan-based procedural materials of natural environments and debris, all in .sbsar format.
Sunday, March 21st, 2021
Next Limit ships Maxwell 5.2
Physically based renderer gets GPU support for Multilight, including Nvidia's Ampere GPUs. Now loads Substance .sbsar files.
Friday, March 12th, 2021
e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.1
Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
This neat new Adobe AI tech turns photos into Substances
Video: see sneak peeks at Adobe's 2021 graphics R&D projects, like AI-based automated material capture.
Friday, January 29th, 2021
Autodesk ships Maya 2020.4 and Maya LT 2020.4
Check out the new features in the 3D animation software, including a big update to its Bifrost toolset.
Tuesday, December 8th, 2020
CLO Virtual Fashion ships Marvelous Designer 10.0
3D clothing design tool gets new wrinkle-sculpting brush and much more customisable 3D avatars. Now rental-only.
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020