Material Maker 1.4 is a big update to the free material authoring app
Open-source alternative to tools like Substance 3D Designer and Painter gets a long-awaited update. Check out the new features.
Tuesday, October 7th, 2025
thickness map
Foundry releases Mari 7.0
3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes
Monday, December 4th, 2023
Master grooming CG hair with Ornatrix for Maya
Create facial hair for an animatable 3D character with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.
Saturday, September 11th, 2021
Adobe releases Substance Designer 2020.1
Material-authoring tool gets new keyboard shortcut editor, revamped PBR render node, MaterialX plugin.
Thursday, April 9th, 2020
Marmoset ships Toolbag 3.04
Now available: big update to the real-time toolkit adds scores of new features for rendering, texture baking and the Marmoset Viewer.
Thursday, April 26th, 2018