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Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

HitFilm and Imerge Pro developer will become the rapidly expanding stock music and video content firm's in-house software division.

Thursday, July 15th, 2021

New sub-€100 3D texturing app can be used to paint or bake 16k PBR texture maps for use in other DCC software or game engines.

Tuesday, July 13th, 2021

Online library of source images for matte painters now available as 16-bit DNG RAW and 32-bit EXR files, along with 360-degree HDRI skies.

Tuesday, June 29th, 2021

Veteran free digital sketching app for Mac, PC, iOS and Android gets spun off to a new independent firm.

Friday, June 25th, 2021

Material authoring app formerly known as Substance Alchemist also now creates lighting set-ups.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

3D texture painting app gets better auto UV unwrapping, support for the new Adobe Standard Material.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

Buyout of Pixyz's CAD data preparation and import tools may also lead to new workflows for games artists in the Unity Editor.

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021

Autodesk's cloud-based VFX production tracking system gets new name, new licensing system, and new $40/month subscription.

Tuesday, June 8th, 2021

Rendering and technical animation software gets new automated mesh simplification tool, and updates to the material library.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2021

All-in-one deal includes crowd animation tool anima and 1,600 3D characters for under $800/year.

Monday, May 31st, 2021

GPU-based tool for sculpting animation caches gets initial support for Alembic, plus option to use procedural textures as alphas.

Tuesday, May 11th, 2021