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Updated 9 December: Discover discounts on CG hardware, software and stock assets available throughout December until the New Year.

Saturday, November 30th, 2024

Discover great seasonal discounts on 3D assets, apps and software, including offers still valid until the end of December.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

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

Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.

Monday, November 28th, 2022

Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

Voxel sculpting, retopology and 3D painting software gets option to bake RGB cavity maps and improved Smart Material workflow.

Tuesday, September 28th, 2021

Latest update extends the free material creation software's handling of UDIMs and texture sets. See all of the new features here.

Thursday, September 2nd, 2021

Long-awaited major update to the sculpting and painting app ships. Check out the new features, and changes to pricing and plugins.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Real-time rendering toolkit gets new GPU-accelerated ray tracing system, new 3D painting toolset.

Monday, April 5th, 2021

Free material authoring tool gets system for exporting layer masks to DCC apps and game engines, plus 65 new bundled Smart Materials.

Thursday, November 26th, 2020

Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

Master Adobe's texturing software with The Gnomon Workshop's essential new introductory tutorial.

Monday, October 12th, 2020

Megascans to get new 'modular' assets and drone scans; Mixer to get new tools for authoring stylised, painterly materials.

Tuesday, April 7th, 2020