Pixar ships RenderMan 22.6
Production renderer gets new Mari integration plugin, hdPrman plugin to render USD files, PxrCurvature for creating edge wear effects.
Monday, July 29th, 2019
texture painting
Adobe releases Substance Painter 2019.2
Texture painting software gets support for RTX-accelerated texture baking on Nvidia GPUs.
Friday, July 26th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019.2
Free-in-beta material-authoring tool gets new Scatter modifier, updated Pattern modifer, layer blending modes and undo/redo system.
Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Ryan Kittleson releases Ryan's Tools 1.3 for ZBrush
Handy free plugin fixes common niggles when sculpting, painting or working with cameras in ZBrush.
Sunday, June 9th, 2019
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2019.1
Big update to the texture painting app adds neat dynamic strokes system, viewport displacement.
Wednesday, April 24th, 2019
Quixel releases Mixer 2019
Big update adds parametric authoring and image-to-PBR-material conversion to the scan blending tool, now in free beta.
Friday, March 15th, 2019
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 4 R2
Popular suite of 250+ add-on tools for Foundry's 3D painting software now updated to support Mari 4.x.
Thursday, December 6th, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.2
Long-awaited new mirrored projection system lets users paint symmetrically on any model: no need for a specialised UV layout.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2018
Sneak peek: Allegorithmic's spellbinding Project Alchemist
Video: Intriguing 'augmented digital material creation' tool will blend hand painting, parametric editing and AI workflows.
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.2
3D painting tool adds subsurface scattering, viewport gizmos for fill layers, Alembic and glTF import.
Friday, August 3rd, 2018
Gnomon ships Introduction to Substance Painter 2018
New texturing crash course from Naughty Dog's Christophe Desse aims to take you from 'zero to hero'.
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2018
Allegorithmic ships Substance Painter 2018.1.2
Texture baking now 'up to 5x' faster on dense meshes; save system reworked to cut project file sizes.
Friday, June 15th, 2018
Foundry ships Mari 4.1
Update improves Mari's handling of colour spaces and selection groups. Mac users get the same features - but in Mari 3.4, not 4.1.
Tuesday, June 12th, 2018