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
Cycles
Blender 2.68 ships
Open-source 3D package gets new modelling tools, improved smoke sims, up to 30% render speed boost.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Blender 2.66 adds Bullet physics, Dynamic Topology
Impressive update adds high-end rigid-body dynamics, true claylike sculpting to the open-source app.
Friday, February 22nd, 2013
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.65
New fire and smoke tools, plus support for Imageworks' Open Shading Language.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2012
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
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
Blender 2.63 ships
Latest update to the open-source 3D package adds support for n-gons and an improved sculpting workflow.
Monday, April 30th, 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
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
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