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Wacom unveils MovinkPad Pro 14 professional drawing pad
New $900 14-inch Android tablet works as both a standalone drawing tablet - and potentially, as a wireless pen display, for both 2D and 3D art.
Tutorials: Rendering Matte Surfaces – Volumes 1-3
Master digital drawing skills with The Gnomon Workshop's new series of introductory tutorials recorded by top Concept Designer Neville Page.
Escape Motions releases Rebelle 8
Big update to the natural media painting software adds new Bristle Brushes, environment lighting for thick paint, and better PSD support.
Faceform releases Wrap 2025.9 and Wrap4D 2025.9
Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.
Zibra AI unveils ZibraGDS
Promising new tech compresses complex destruction, cloth and liquid simulation caches for real-time rendering inside Unreal Engine.
Cascadeur Mobile is now available on Android as well as iOS
Mobile edition of Nekki's AI-assisted animation software now works on Android tablets, See the other new features in Cascadeur Mobile 1.5.
Marvelous Designer is now available for Linux
New Linux version of the 3D clothing design software for VFX and game development adds a Python API for studios to automate repetitive tasks.
Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2025.2 with Nanite support
Major update to the real-time visualization app adds support for Nanite and the Unreal VCam virtual camera app. Free to indie artists.
Topaz Labs to end perpetual licenses of its software
Popular AI-based image upscaling and processing tools Gigapixel, Photo AI and Video AI go subscription-only on Friday.
ZBrush and Cinema 4D to support Snapdragon processors natively
Native support due in Spring 2026. See a sneak peek of a 310-million-poly ZBrush character running on a Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop.
Ornatrix is now free to schools and students worldwide
Popular hair plugin for 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya and Unreal Engine is now available free to educational institutions and students worldwide.
Boris FX releases Silhouette 2025.5
See the neat new AI-based masking workflows in the roto and paint app, including a new Face ML node for automatic facial segmentation.
Pixar unveils the new features of RenderMan 27
Check out the changes coming in the 'most significant release in a decade' for the heavyweight renderer for animation and VFX.
Theory Accelerated releases Axiom 4 for Houdini
Latest update to the GPU-accelerated sparse volumetric fluid solver improves collisions between smoke and surrounding objects.
Get 150+ modular assets to create wooden cabins in Unreal Engine
Environment artist Maarten Hof's Modular Rural Cabin pack of AAA-style game assets is free to download for the next two weeks.
Wacom launches new $300 Wacom One 14 pen display
Beginner-friendly 14-inch HD display is Wacom's thinnest, cheapest pen display to date. Check out its key specs for digital art.
Adobe releases Photoshop 26.11
Check out the new features in the image-editing app, including a new system for creating and managing shared cloud-based projects.
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.1
Big update to the GPU-based terrain generator adds new biome and object scattering systems. See all of the changes, and the new pricing.
Globe Plants to close its online store next month
Popular 3D plant creator's models will be available via Chaos's Cosmos asset library after its e-store closes on 1 October 2025.
Itoosoft releases Forest Pack 9.3 for 3ds Max
Check out the changes to the scattering and scene layout toolset, including support for wind animation in the new ForestIvy plugin.
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