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Blender Institute

See which major features are due in the open-source 3D software in 2023 - and which are delayed.

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

Set up a Blender render farm 'in five minutes' with the new version of the open-source render manager

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

3D painting directly in Sculpt mode and interactive previews in Eevee due in the open-source 3D app in the next few releases.

Monday, February 21st, 2022

Blender Institute names its four main development targets for the open-source 3D software in 2022.

Tuesday, January 18th, 2022

Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.

Monday, August 20th, 2018

Action-packed animated short demonstrates the potential of Blender 2.8's Grease Pencil tools.

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

Blender production tracking system and render manager used on the Institute's shorts now in public beta.

Thursday, July 13th, 2017

See the best new work created using the open-source 3D app, from cartoon shorts to photorealistic VFX.

Tuesday, September 13th, 2016

Download the first offical release of the 'feature film quality' auto-rigging and skinning system for Blender.

Monday, January 18th, 2016

Torture your CPU with a 240MB scene file from new Blender Institute CG short Cosmos Laundromat.

Monday, March 23rd, 2015

New lightweight open-source asset manager is intended to fill gap in the market between SVN and Shotgun.

Friday, July 25th, 2014

Proposed animated feature scaled down to a pilot for now, despite nearly $400,000 in crowdfunding.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2014