OptiDraw paints animated meshes inside Unity
OptiDraw by Run2Go Studio targets in editor mesh texturing in Unity, including skinned meshes, UDIM tiles, layered workflows, and a channel packing utility.
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Sparseal Wafer opens Windows beta
Wafer jumps from iPad to Windows in a free open beta, aiming at stylized painting with layers, masks, and multi-channel strokes.
Galata.ink Ships Tamga Sculpt and Paint for Browsers
tamga brings lightweight sculpting, vertex paint, and ink style renders to web, desktop, and iPad, with quick OBJ handoff.
RealBlend brings mesh painting back to Unity
New Unity mesh painting tool targets Polybrush users with in editor vertex colour and mesh editing features.
InstaMAT Test: Painting, Procedurals and Pasta
InstaMAT merges painting, materials, and mesh editing into one node-based tool that connects Substance-style workflows with procedural control. Sounds great, so we'll get our hands dirty and test it!
Foundry locks in full subscription future for 2027
Foundry drops perpetual maintenance: from 2027, all Nuke, Mari, and Katana users will be on subscription only.
Mari 7.5: Multi-Paint, Texture Transfer and the Death of the Single Channel
Multi-Paint and Bakery-based Texture Transfer redefine Mari 7.5: eight channels per stroke, faster asset reuse, and fewer excuses for misaligned maps.
Rendering the Inferno at RiseFX: The Lost Bus
128 shots, 15 sequences, and GPUs on the brink: RISE FX’s Oliver Schulz explains how his team built the burning world of The Lost Bus.
Ribbon Rules: Substance Painter 11.1 goes Vulkan
11.1 trades OpenGL for Vulkan and adds a precise Ribbon tool, symmetry for fill layers, physical-size displacement, and 75 new presets.
Huion Kamvas 13 (Gen 3): Welcome to Sensible Pen Tablets
Sometimes you just want a tablet that works without selling your workstation. That was the starting point for our test of Huion’s Kamvas 13 (Gen 3). In times where many artists keep an eye on their budgets, the idea of a small, solid, and affordable pen display is tempting. So we teamed up with Huion to see what this one could actually do.
EbSynth V2: Real-Time Preview, Timeline & Layers
Secret Weapons launches EbSynth V2 — now with real-time preview, timeline navigation, brushes, and layer support. A major workflow upgrade from its minimal early versions.
Howler 2026 lands: AI inpainting, Confetti particles and four-track audio for under $33
Howler 2026 reinvents the quirky painting app with AI image tools, particle effects and multitrack audio—and it’s still just $32.99.
Oil Gets Real: Rebelle 8’s RealShader and SoftShadows Put Ray Tracing on the Canvas
Escape Motions unveils Rebelle 8 with RealShader, real-time ray traced shadows, environment maps and 20× NanoPixel export. Early Access late Q3.
Nomad: Sculpting on Desktop
Nomad Sculpt enters free public beta on Windows, macOS and Linux - desktop edition includes all iPad features.
Brush for Free: Howler 2023 Now Costs Nada
Howler 2023 is now free. The GPU-accelerated painting and animation tool supports 3D painting, frame-by-frame animation, and video FX for Windows users.
Dirty Shader Hands? Use MatCaps!
A free tool for Blender lets you paint PBR materials directly in 3D Viewport—without UVs, nodes or shaders.
Paint Your Blender: Free Add-On Brings Photoshop-Like Layers
A new free Blender add-on lets you paint directly on 3D objects using Photoshop-like layers. Precision meets simplicity for digital artists.
Terragen 4.8 & Sky Update: Shaping Clouds and Worlds
Planetside Software releases Terragen 4.8 and updates Terragen Sky, introducing GPU previews, cloud exports, and a cloud-painting tool for CGI and VFX professionals.
LayerPainter Update Enhances Painting Workflow in Blender
The LayerPainter add-on for Blender gets updated with improved UI, new features for texture painting, and added functionality for VFX workflows.
Free Brushstroke Tools Now Available for Blender from Blender Studio
New brushstroke tools for Blender—free from Blender Studio—offer expanded control for digital sculpting and painting.
We Hunt Giants
The short film "We Hunt Giants" takes the viewer into a world in which humans and dinosaurs fight for survival. Action, drama and CGI - without a Hollywood budget in the millions. Here is a brief insight into the making of the film and its visual effects.
Anniversary offer: Rebelle painting software for only 10 US dollars!
Escape Motions celebrates its tenth anniversary. Creative tools Rebelle, Flame Painter, Amberlight and Inspirit are on offer for just ten US dollars each. With Rebelle, artists can create chic watercolour and acrylic paintings!
Pilgway releases 3DCoat 2022.16!
The multifunctional wonder bag among the DCC tools? Digital sculpting, UVs, PBR texturing, painting, rendering and low-poly modelling - what can version 2022.16 not (yet) do?
With the open source Open Brush 1.0 you can scribble in virtual space
Anyone looking for a 3D sketching tool should take a look at Icosa Gallery. But what does it have to do with Google's Tilt Brush?
Krita Foundation Releases Krita 5.0!
These key features will brush you away: Storyboard editor, time-lapse function – but what actually is tweening?
Howler 2020 Becomes Available Free of Charge
Project Dogwaffle made Howler 2020 free, offering tools for digital painting, animation, video processing, terrain and rotoscoping.
Wacom Manga & Anime Days 2021 Offers Three Days of Online Workshops
Wacom’s Manga & Anime Days presented portfolio reviews, manga craft, character art, cosplay and career sessions from 28–30 July 2021.
Rebelle 3 Review: Natural Watercolour and Acrylic Painting
A historical review examines Rebelle 3’s realistic watercolour, acrylic, ink and pastel simulation, wet-media flow, masks and drawing aids.
Maxon Acquires Mobile Sculpting App Forger
Maxon acquires Forger, Javier Edo Meseguer’s iOS application for mobile 3D sculpting and texture painting with Apple Pencil support.
Rebelle 4 Adds Oils, Acrylics and RYB Colour Mixing
Escape Motions’ Rebelle 4 expands its fluid-flow digital-painting system with oils, acrylics, improved watercolours and RYB mixing.
Magma Studio Brings Team Painting Online
Browser-based Magma Studio combines professional painting tools, cloud autosave and real-time collaboration for teams of up to 30.
Mari 4.6v4 Improves Bake Points and Node Graphs
Foundry’s Mari 4.6v4 added limited patch ranges, local-space transforms, node-graph UX improvements and updated baking.
EbSynth Beta Adds After Effects Export and File Automation
EbSynth’s 2020 beta added direct After Effects export and automatic filename handling for stylised video workflows.
Howler 2021 Released
Howler 2021 adds larger brushes, relative sizing, custom-brush transforms, tablet-focused UI changes and multi-monitor support.
Substance Painter 2020.2 Adds UDIMs
Substance Painter 2020.2 introduced cross-tile painting, UV-tile masking and baking, faster exports and smaller projects.
4D Paint Becomes Free for Cinema 4D
4D Paint projected raster and vector artwork directly onto Cinema 4D models and supported OctaneRender's Live Viewer.
Howler 2020.2 Reworks Its Brush System
Howler 2020.2 refreshes brush presets, paper textures, preview lighting and image-dock organisation for digital artists.
Quixel: Megascans, Bridge and Mixer Webinar
A Quixel tools webinar offers insight into the history and current possibilities of Megascans, Bridge and Mixer 2020.
Substance Painter Release | Auto UVs
Substance Painter 2019.3 finally adds automatic UV unwrapping, brush updates and news about cross-UDIM painting!
Rotoscoping with Silhouette 2020
Silhouette 2020 is the first release under Boris FX, with new roto tools, Mocha integration, paint improvements and more!
Foundry releases Mari 4.0
Mari 4.0 released by Foundry: The 3D painting tool comes with a cleaner interface, faster project set-ups and Disney's Principled BRDF Shader, among other things
Wonder Woman Prologue: Breakdown
Divine paintings in the Wonder Woman opener: Platige Image shows the making of the shots that introduce the history of the Amazons.
Mari Extension Pack 4 Released
More than 50 new features for Mari in the new extension: Included are height-map material blending, Quick Exporter, Radio Nodes and more!
Zippy Painter 1.0 for 3ds Max
With the 3ds Max plug-in Zippy Painter, simulated objects can be painted dynamically onto a surface in a 3D space.
Create Underwater Reflections for Free
This free plug-in can be used to create relections in digital water in Howler.
Substance Painter 2.2
Material Layering, Projection Painting, new scripting options and more are available in the new version of Substance Painter.
More Animation with Krita!
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.
Mari in the Non-Commercial Version
The non-commercial version of Mari lacks the full feature set, but the free tool could be useful for private projects or learning texturing.
New Sculpting Tool
Polybrush is a sculpting tool with a different approach from ZBrush. It remains in beta for nine days and is free for that period.
Substance Painter 1.7.1
Allegorithmic’s texture-painting tool can be used to paint 3D textures in real time. Here are the new features in the current update.
Painting with Mischief
The Foundry acquired Made With Mischief a while ago, and version 2.1.1 of the painting tool has now just been released.
Tutorial: Drawing with Smoke 2013
In a new tutorial, Autodesk shows efficient ways in which the drawing tools in Smoke can be used.
Digital Drawing with Howler 8
Project Dogwaffle is releasing the eighth version of the low-budget Howler drawing program for Windows at a price of just under 115 euros.
Vue in Conversation: Peter Baustaedter
Vue presents an interview with multiple-award-winning matte painter Peter Baustaedter – who talks about his beginnings, working on Avatar and the daily routine of a matte painter.
Video: modo Tutorial, Episode 6
Luxology provides a total of eight tutorial videos for modo. DP presents a different one of these films each day. Today: “3D Painting”
Corel Painter™ Essentials 4 Available in German
The latest version of the digital creative studio makes it even easier to paint on screen and turn snapshots into paintings.
Art Karlsruhe continues until Sunday, March 2
Right at the start of the art fair, Cologne's ART GALERIE 7 in Hall 2/Stand A 22 reports an excellent record of success.
Call for entries to the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08
The submission period for the Gesellschafter ART.AWARD 08 begins on March 1. With its launch, all artists nationwide are asked: “What kind of society do we want to live in?”. The competition, launched by Aktion Mensch's Gesellschafter initiative and ART.FAIR 21, explores ideas and visions on sociopolitical issues in art.
Corel Launches “The Painter Factory” Online Community
Corel has launched "The Painter Factory," an online community for Corel Painter users, at http://www.painterfactory.com. The portal is the latest in a series of international community sites created by the graphics, office and digital-media software company to support its customers.
Modo 201 available
Luxology announces the start of deliveries of the modeling, painting and rendering software
NAB: Luxology presents Modo 201
A new paint module and a significantly improved renderer are important features
NAB: Restoring films with Diamant – now in version 2
The second edition of HS-Art's film-restoration software Diamant now also contains a paint module
NAB: Quantel shows eQ FX and new Paintbox
TimeMagic hardware accelerates new Quantel products
Siggraph: D2 Software Unveils New Nuke Version
The professional compositing tool is now also available for Mac OS X and has been further improved
SIGGRAPH: Sensable Presents ClayTools 1.1
The software adds several features and is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter
Siggraph: Luxology Announces Modo 201
The New Version Combines Modeling, Painting and Rendering / Expected to Be Available in the Fourth Quarter of 2005
Siggraph: MoXi Simulates Asian Painting
A new technology enables painting in the style of Asian ink painting on the computer
Bauhaus: Tablet PC with Mirage Software for Mobile 2D Artists
Combination of Tablet PC and Bauhaus' Mirage software allows location-independent work
Alias Sketchbook Pro 2 in Stores
Alias's 2D drawing program Sketchbook Pro is now available in the revised and expanded version 2.
Microsoft: Beta Version of Photoshop Competitor Acrylic Ready for Download
The software group offers its graphics application Acrylic for public testing / Product targets Adobe directly as a "Photoshop killer"
Mirage 1.5 Released
The free Mirage 1.5 update adds tools to the painting and compositing application
Cambridge Animation Systems Ships Animo 6.0
Animo 6.0 is shipping for Windows and Mac OS X with more than 50 additions requested by users.
Pixologic Comes with ZBrush 2
In the area of modeling, texturing and painting, the 2D/3D software “ZBrush 2” from Pixologic offers new possibilities.
Bauhaus Software Shows Mirage at NAB 2004
Bauhaus Software will show its Mirage real-time video-paint, animation and effects application at NAB 2004.