Rebelle 8 turns digital painting into a physical experience. The new Bristle Brush engine simulates every hair of a real brush, RealShader adds true lighting and shadow depth to thick paint, and the NanoPixel 2 engine scales artwork up to 32 K resolution. With layer-specific materials, symmetry tools, Escape Motions’ latest release feels less like an update and more like a real studio, minus the turpentine.
LightWave 2025 introduces RIPR for real-time HDR previews, enhanced rigging tools like Steppit, Handdit, and Pickkit, and new modeling features including SuperPatcher and Construct.
Moho 14.3, the Mantis Shrimp update, introduces advanced brush features like Color Drift and Opacity, enhancing 2D animation with natural media effects.
Michael Dunnam’s XMD Toolbox 2.0 added a redesigned interface, faster performance and management tools for ZBrush alphas, materials, fibres and textures.
For hard surfaces and environments, Andrew Arkin is making these two brush packs available free of charge – for software that supports alpha and height maps.
Version 3.0 of the open-source tool Krita is an update packed with new features: among other things, the frame-by-frame animation function has been improved.