The Foundry buys Mischief creator Made With Mischief
Cult $25 pen-sketching tool becomes The Foundry's first truly mass-market digital art product.
Thursday, November 13th, 2014
Windows
Ten24 ships Skull Sketcher anatomy reference app
Free tool shows male and female skulls from any angle, under any lighting, in outline or realistic views.
Tuesday, September 16th, 2014
Krita 2.8 brings open-source paint tool to Windows users
Updated: Now with an early build for OS X, too. Back it on Kickstarter to speed up Mac development.
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2014
Autodesk buys the Bitsquid game engine
Technology from next-gen console and PC engine to be used to create new real-time 3D visualisation tools.
Monday, June 9th, 2014
Autodesk ships FBX Review for Mac and iOS devices
Free asset-review tool comes to Macs and iPads on top of Windows; adds support for geometry caches.
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014
Teach your kids modelling with Blox 3D
Free iOS, Android and Windows app lets 4-to-8-year-olds create simple block-based 3D models.
Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Get Godot: like Unity, but open source
Mobile and PC developer Okam Studio releases its multi-platform in-house engine via a MIT licence.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Unity 4.3 adds new 2D tools and blendshape animation
Updated, now shipping: there's a new markerless facial mocap plugin and the Unity Cloud program, too.
Wednesday, November 13th, 2013
The Foundry ships Mari for Mac
Digital paint tool now available on OS X as part of Mari 2.5. Users of other OSs get a new shader API.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2013
Krita 2.7 released
Open-source paint app continues to evolve in CG-friendly directions with new Offset tool for tileable textures.
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Eye candy: Epic's Infiltrator Unreal Engine 4 demo
Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.
Monday, April 1st, 2013
Krita 2.6 adds support for OpenColorIO, layered PSDs
Open-source paint tool will 'soon be the standard' for 2D work in VFX on Linux, says ex-Digital Domain TD.
Friday, February 8th, 2013
Southpaw Technology open-sources Tactic
Updated: Free asset-management system Tactic Team now runs on Mac OS X as well as Windows.
Thursday, February 7th, 2013