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texture painting

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Students can now get one-year licences of Nuke, Katana, Mari and Modo for $99, if they don't already get them free as part of a course.

Friday, September 29th, 2023

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023

Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

3D texture painting software gets neat 3D path system for painting along editable Bezier guide curves.

Wednesday, June 21st, 2023

Updated: perpetual licences of the 3D sculpting and retopology app now back down to their old price.

Thursday, May 11th, 2023

Lower-cost edition of 3DCoat for texture painting gets new colour smoothing tool, better UV mapping.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023

Get Wes McDermott's handy free add-on for... well, exporting layer masks from Substance 3D Painter.

Thursday, February 23rd, 2023

Real-time rendering and look dev app gets new texture painting features, light baking, USD support.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023

Major update adds USD support to the 3D texture painting software, and revamps baking workflow.

Thursday, January 12th, 2023

Get started in digital sculpting with the latest version of Gnomon's popular ZBrush tutorial series.

Monday, January 9th, 2023

3D texture painting software gets new USD Look export system, plus neat Roller Brush for repeating details like scales and stitches.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2022

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

Monday, November 28th, 2022