Escape Motions releases Flame Painter 4
Unique digital painting software gets more particle systems, new brush editor, symmetry painting.
Saturday, June 1st, 2019
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Adobe and Moleskine launch new Paper Tablet for pro artists
Creative Cloud Connected 'smart notebook' can send pen-on-paper sketches to Illustrator as editable vector strokes.
Monday, March 25th, 2019
Unity Technologies releases Unity 2018.2
Lots of features, including a new physical camera model, but the GPU lightmapper hasn't made it.
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Unity Technologies reveals Unity 2018 product roadmap
See the new graphics features due in Unity 2018.1 to 2018.3, from new materials and animation options to the GPU lightmapper.
Friday, March 23rd, 2018
Pixologic ships ZBrush 4R8
Updated: Long-awaited update to the sculpting tool adds real-time Booleans, vector displacement meshes, eight new deformers.
Tuesday, June 13th, 2017
Autodesk releases Maya 2017 Update 3
Sizeable update to Maya adds new motion graphics, animation, hair grooming and fluid simulation tools.
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
Adobe releases Photoshop CC 2017
Videos: Update adds more for designers than CG artists, but there are a few nice workflow features.
Friday, November 4th, 2016
Computerinsel ships PhotoLine 19.5
Powerful sub-$100 image-editing app now imports Photoshop Smart Objects, most PS adjustment layers.
Friday, March 11th, 2016
Autodesk releases Meshmixer 3.3
Update to mesh-editing tool adds support for creating multi-material prints, plus new mesh Unwrap option and SVG export.
Monday, January 25th, 2016
Autodesk unveils 3ds Max and Maya 2016 Extension 1
Videos: see all the new features in both apps, including new games functionality and new 3D text tools.
Tuesday, August 11th, 2015
Features planned for VPaint 1.5
See a list of new features planned for version 1.5 of the open-source app that creates vector animations that mimic 3D forms.
Saturday, August 8th, 2015
The Foundry reveals entire feature set of Modo 901
Videos: see the key features of this major update, including the new Advanced Viewport and FX tools.
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
Sad Cat Software releases Bloom 1.0
The non-destructive, PSD-friendly 16-bit image editor formerly known as Ormr gets its official release.
Thursday, April 30th, 2015