Allegorithmic releases Substance Painter 1.1
Next-gen games texture painting app gets support for material IDs, ZBrush-style Lazy Mouse system.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014
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Gnomon releases Making Frankenstein's Monster
Recreate the creature in Mudbox and Maya with Treyarch character artist Peter Zoppi's full five-hour guide.
Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Quixel releases Quixel Suite
Updated: new versions of NDO and DDO now officially out of beta. New batch options and 16K support too.
Thursday, October 23rd, 2014
Ambiera releases CopperCube 5
3D authoring tool for WebGL, Flash and mobile games gets terrain generator, new physics options.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
Allegorithmic releases Bitmap2Material 3
Games texture map creation tool gets support for PBR workflow. Neat shadow-removal and tiling options.
Tuesday, September 30th, 2014
Janos Hunyadi releases PolyPaint importer for Maya
Scanline VFX artist's handy free tool gets ZBrush texture data into Maya without the need to set up UVs.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Gnomon releases Creating Believable 3D Environments
New two-hour video sets out Blizzard cinematic environment modeling star Seth Thompson's workflow.
Wednesday, September 10th, 2014
Knald Technologies releases Lys in open beta
Cool new tool converts HDR files between formats and generates specular and irradiance textures.
Thursday, September 4th, 2014
Eye candy: Gnomon's new Best of Term awards
See great student work from the US CG school, including a rather smug vampire and a bit of cross-dressing.
Friday, July 4th, 2014
Substance tools to get Final Fantasy XV render tech
Updated: Silicon Studio's Yebis 2 middleware shipping in Substance Designer 4.3. See a cool demo video.
Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
The Foundry ships Modo 801
'Monster' across-the-board update includes node-based shading, new animation tools, better dynamics.
Friday, April 25th, 2014
Download DDO for free
Get the current version of Quixel's Photoshop games texturing toolset, once priced at $499, for nothing.
Wednesday, March 19th, 2014
Allegorithmic announces Substance Painter
Updated: Radical new games texturing app now in open beta. Pre-order it on Steam and save $74.
Friday, March 7th, 2014