Black Friday and winter 2020 deals for CG artists
Updated: Check out our list of great seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 30th, 2020
Substance Designer
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
Discover how to create game-ready foliage
Model and texture 3D plants for Unreal Engine with The Gnomon Workshop's new beginner's guide.
Thursday, November 19th, 2020
RandomControl updates Maverick Indie and Studio
Both GPU renderers get new options for rendering animations, plus a free GPU benchmarking tool.
Monday, November 9th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2020.3
Material authoring app now automatically generates opacity masks for imported texture atlases.
Wednesday, October 28th, 2020
Adobe ships Substance Designer 2020.2
Material authoring software now updated to Substance Engine 8. Check out the new tools it brings.
Tuesday, October 13th, 2020
Go from zero to hero in Substance Painter 2020
Master Adobe's texturing software with The Gnomon Workshop's essential new introductory tutorial.
Monday, October 12th, 2020
Nvidia announces Omniverse open beta
USD-based 'open collaboration' platform for CG work will become free to individual users this fall.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Eye candy: Adobe's new Substance in Film showreel
See the best VFX work done with Substance Painter and Designer, plus tech breakdowns of key films.
Thursday, June 18th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2020.1
3D texture painting tool gets new real-time decal mode, GPU-based curvature map baker, Python API.
Thursday, April 23rd, 2020
Serif is working on 3D texturing tools in Affinity Photo
See an intriguing preview of new texturing features in the popular perpetually licensed image editor.
Friday, April 17th, 2020
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Autodesk ships 3ds Max 2021
Games-friendly update to 3ds Max adds new PBR features, support for Substance .sbsar files, and makes Arnold the default render engine.
Wednesday, March 25th, 2020