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Image editing and digital painting app gets new options for image warping and sky replacement. Experimental beta builds due soon.

Wednesday, August 18th, 2021

Inkscape 1.1 ships

Major update to the open-source vector design tool adds nifty new options for editing paths, and a lot of quality-of-life improvements.

Saturday, May 29th, 2021

Check out the new features in the next-gen animation and motion graphics software from the original creators of Maya's MASH toolset

Wednesday, May 12th, 2021

Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Still some feature limitations, but the March 2021 release now runs '1.5x faster' on Macs with M1 chips.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

Digital nature tools get USD export, support for native Arnold materials, revamped Cinema 4D integrations.

Thursday, February 11th, 2021

Open-source painting software gets scriptable fill layers, support for dynamic colour gradients, and improved MyPaint colour picker.

Monday, October 19th, 2020

Now shipping: new procedural animation app blends 'the power of 3D with the ease of use of 2D'.

Wednesday, August 12th, 2020

Get Plugins 4D dev Kent Barber's handy real-time projection painting add-on free for Cinema 4D R20+.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Check out the new features in Foundry's unusual hybrid 2D/3D app for creating and visualising variations for product designs.

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

Inkscape 1.0 ships

Open-source vector design tool reaches its milestone 1.0 release. Check out the new drawing, vector editing and export features here.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2020

Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.

Friday, January 3rd, 2020

First update to the unusual sketch-based modelling tool in six years adds new mesh deformation and Boolean features, plus SVG import.

Saturday, December 28th, 2019