These free AI add-ons create PBR materials inside Blender
Use Dream Textures, DeepBump and DT2DB Bridge to create PBR materials in Blender 'in one click'
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
AMD
Blender gets new Metal viewport
Open-source app's GPU rendering backend now boosts frame rates in the Eevee renderer by up to 5x.
Thursday, January 19th, 2023
Adobe releases Substance 3D Painter 8.3
Major update adds USD support to the 3D texture painting software, and revamps baking workflow.
Thursday, January 12th, 2023
Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max
GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2022.1
First stable release of Octane 2022 adds new photon tracing kernel and Standard Surface material.
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022
Topaz Labs ships Video AI 3.1
Ever use Gigapixel AI to upscale your 3D renders? Check out its newly revamped AI-based sibling app for upresing video to up to 8K.
Thursday, November 10th, 2022
Nvidia open-sources PhysX 5
Download the source code for the latest version of the real-time physics SDK, along with smoke and fire simulation system Flow 2.0.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2022
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.5 for Blender
Free GPU renderer gets new bevel shader, better interactive rendering. New Maya and Houdini versions also available.
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
Volkswagen backs the Blender Development Fund
First automotve firm to back Blender to give at least €120k/year to the open-source 3D software.
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
7 CG products you may have missed in September 2022
See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform
Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.
Thursday, September 29th, 2022
Insydium releases NeXus
New GPU-accelerated particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation system for CInema 4D runs on AMD, Apple Silicon, Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022