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ZBrush alternative

Promising new free application provides a 'clean, distraction-free space' for sculpting characters and creatures for games and VFX work.

Wednesday, July 8th, 2026

New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

Thursday, July 9th, 2026

Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.

Tuesday, July 7th, 2026

New online tool lets you paint textures directly onto 3D models, or create new PBR materials by remixing a library of CC0 assets.

Friday, July 3rd, 2026

Major update to the soft tissue simulation add-on for Maya and Houdini adds new machine learning toolset. See all the new features.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026

Check out the new features in the 3D texture painting software, including new nodes for hex tiling, color grading and A/B comparisons.

Thursday, July 2nd, 2026