Adobe unveils Project Anorigami
See Substance Painter's upcoming UV unfolding toolset, plus seamless texture painting across UDIM tiles.
Tuesday, July 30th, 2019
UV unwrapping
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 4.9
Voxel sculpting, painting and retopo tool gets 'soft Boolean' system, updated UV unwrapping, resolution-independent painting.
Wednesday, July 24th, 2019
Foundry ships Modo 12.2
Update adds render denoising, Workbenches system for custom UI layouts, more improvements to modelling, UVs and tech animation.
Friday, November 16th, 2018
See the new ZBrush features unveiled at ZBrush Summit
See the upcoming ZBrush features announced at Pixologic's 2018 user event, plus three free plugins to download today.
Saturday, September 29th, 2018
Optimise your Maya UV layouts with NPK_UV_Layout 1.0
Unify UV scale across 3D objects with Weta modeller Niels Peter Kaagaard's neat commercial script.
Thursday, August 30th, 2018
Rizom-Lab ships RizomUV 2018 VS and RizomUV 2018 RS
UV tools formerly known as Unfold3D get new automated unwrapping system and texel density controls.
Thursday, May 24th, 2018
SideFX gives all Houdini Indie users a free extra licence
Maximum resolution of rendered output also raised to 4K, although the yearly rental price is up slightly.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Houdini gets new UV Flatten and FBX export tools
Latest production build adds new UV unwrapping and packing tools, plus support for LODs in FBX files.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
Robert McNeel & Associates ships Rhino 6 for Windows
Long-awaited update to NURBS modeller adds interactive viewport raytracing, node-based workflow.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
Motiva unveils Unknit for Unreal Engine and 3ds Max
Watch a demo of this promising UV unwrapping tool from the devs behind UE4's Datasmith toolset.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Rizom-Lab ships Unfold3D V10 VS and Unfold3D V10 RS
Popular UV unwrapping tool gets two new market-specific editions for design and entertainment work.
Thursday, October 5th, 2017
Gnomon releases Texturing and Shading for Production
Follow ILM artist Jesse Flores's eight-hour video tutorial in Maya, Mari, V-Ray and Substance Painter.
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
Marius Silaghi ships Unwrap Pro for 3ds Max
Promising new UV unfolding plugin gives 'low-distortion, overlap-free' results even on complex models.
Thursday, April 27th, 2017