Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence
Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Blender Foundation
Blender to get sketch mesh editing, deformation blur?
Just two of fifteen Blender development projects to be funded by Google's Summer of Code 2013.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
Eye candy: Tears of Steel
The Blender Foundation's first VFX open movie blends boy-girl romance and kickass robots - and it's a blast.
Thursday, September 27th, 2012
Blender Foundation to launch pro networking site
New Blender Network website to act as 'online directory and social network' for Blender professionals.
Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Eye candy: the first official Tears of Steel teaser
Trailer for the Blender movie once known as Project Mango features spacecraft, robots, glowing brains.
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012
Download the scene files for Quit Blender
Get the assets for the fun five-day short created by the team on new Blender open movie Project Mango.
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Blender 2.62 adds better Booleans, motion tracking
Latest release of the open-source 3D package also adds multi-GPU support to the new Cycles renderer.
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Pre-order the new Blender movie and get in the credits
Sign up for the DVD of Project Mango today and see your name on screen in the new sci-fi VFX flick.
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
CG industry reacts to SOPA/PIPA web blackout
We round up the players taking sides in yesterday's piracy law online action, both pro and anti.
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.61
Update incorporates the new GPU-accelerated Cycles raytracing engine into the open source 3D app.
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Blender 2.60 ships
Leading open-source 3D package gets new audio and mocap tools. More bi-monthly updates to follow.
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Eye candy: the Blender Siggraph demo reel
The leading open-source app gets a demo reel to match its commercial rivals - and pretty cool it is too.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Blender 2.57 ships
Popular open-source 3D package reaches milestone first production-stable release in the 2.5x series.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011