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Clemens Beute has released a free Flow Map painting add-on for Blender that supports the paint modes in both the 2D Image Editor and the 3D Viewport. Find out more on Gumroad. 

OTOY has announced the release of Sculptron, a  tool that allows the user to sculpt animated meshes using GPU acceleration. This is the first commercial version and it adds a new outliner and scene graph since the alpha release. (more...)

MegaFiers has announced an update to its Terrain Plugin for 3ds Max, a tool that allows users to generate landscapes from real-world elevation data by streaming it from online DEM repositories. It uses freely available sources but takes the pain out of locating and stitching together the many tiles that might be required to reconstruct a region. (more...)

Neil Blevins is releasing some nice tutorials about composition. So far he's covered composition weight. using contrast. and layers of light and dark.

Quick Tiles is a new map plugin for 3ds Max that's been designed to take the pain out of creating large areas of tiles and bricks without repetition. (more...)

Maxon has announced it has acquired Forger, a digital 3D sculpting and texture painting application for iOS. (more...)

Epic Games has announced the acquisition of Capturing Reality, the creators of the popular photogrammetry tool Reality Capture that amongst many other things was used to create the Megascans library. According to Epic, the plan is to integrate Reality Capture into the Unreal Engine ecosystem, but they are stressing that new and existing customers will continue to be supported whatever their industry. (more...)

iToo Software has announced the release of Forest Pack 7, the latest version of its scattering plugin for 3ds Max.

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Visuali Studio has announced AutoMZP Maker, a Maxscript that can quickly create self-installing packages. Features include: (more...)

E-ON software has announced its first update to PlantCatalog for 2021. (more...)