Best Black Friday and winter 2022 deals for CG artists
Updated: save money with these seasonal deals on CG software, plugins, stock assets and hardware.
Monday, November 28th, 2022
texture painting
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2022.52
Modelling, retopology and painting app gets multiresolution sculpting system, better volumetric painting.
Saturday, November 26th, 2022
Quixel ships Mixer 2022.1
Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.2
Check out the new features in the biggest update to the 3D texturing painting software 'in quite a while'.
Friday, October 7th, 2022
Substance 3D Painter will soon export .sbsar files
Sneak peek: see all of the new features due in the October update to Adobe's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 16th, 2022
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 5 R9
Check out the new features in this major update to the bonus tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting app.
Friday, September 2nd, 2022
Foundry ships Mari 5.0v4
3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Material Maker 1.0 is out
Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.
Sunday, July 24th, 2022
Pilgway ships 3DCoat 2022 and 3DCoatTextura 2022
New 2022.35 update lets users sculpt and paint simultaneously with any of 3DCoat's voxel brushes.
Monday, July 4th, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.1
Texture painting app gets support for ICC colour profiles, physical size in materials, new texture bakers.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Marmoset ships Toolbag 4.04
Real-time rendering toolkit gets physically accurate DoF, lens flares and motion blur. GPU ray tracing now supported on AMD hardware.
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Best Black Friday and winter 2021 discounts for CG artists
Updated with Christmas and New Year deals: save money on CG software, hardware and assets.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2021
Adobe ships Substance 3D Painter 7.4
3D texture painting app to get OpenColorIO 2 colour management for VFX pipelines.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021