Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.65
New fire and smoke tools, plus support for Imageworks' Open Shading Language.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
Blender
10 ways to speed up Blender's Cycles renderer
Four provided by Blender Guru's Andrew Price, and six by people commenting on his article.
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
MakeHuman 1.0 Alpha 7 released
Big update to the free CG character generator improves base mesh, adds libraries of hair and clothes.
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
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
LuxRender 1.0 released
Updated: Open-source physically based render engine for Blender, 3ds Max, Cinema 4D and Softimage hits 'official' release.
Monday, September 10th, 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
Watch a man control 3D software with a Wiimote
See CG artist Micah Denn show off a very unusual control system for modelling in Blender.
Tuesday, July 17th, 2012
New Hair Factory plugin gets Blender hair into Unity
Convert particle-based Blender hair to an FBX file to stamp out low-poly character baldness.
Saturday, July 14th, 2012
Export from Blender to Maxwell Render with BtoMW
Render Blender scenes in Next Limit's physically based renderer with this new .mxs file exporter.
Friday, May 25th, 2012
One to try: appleseed
It may be yet another open source physically based renderer - but it's being written specifically with production in mind.
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Glare Technologies ships Indigo Renderer 3.2
Latest update to physically based render engine adds Sun & Sky system, direct link to Cinema 4D.
Thursday, April 26th, 2012
Renderfarm.fi adds support for Cycles
Free distributed online rendering service adds support for Blender's new raytrace render engine.
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012