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
Cycles
Download 127 Blender-ready HDRIs from HDRMAPS
Get a library of HDRIs optimised for Blender's Cycles renderer, packed in a .blend file. Commercial use.
Sunday, December 18th, 2022
5 key features in Blender 3.4
Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from path guiding in Cycles to a hidden bonus for motion designers.
Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Download the free Corona renderer plugin for Blender
Updated: community-made BCorona plugin now supports Blender's displacement modifier.
Tuesday, November 15th, 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
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Preview: Blender's new hair tools and viewport compositor
Check out the curve-based hair system due in Blender 3.3, and the upcoming real-time compositor.
Monday, July 11th, 2022
Maxon releases Redshift for AMD in public beta
Once Nvidia-only GPU renderer now supports AMD gaming and workstation GPUs on Windows as well as macOS.
Monday, June 27th, 2022
Blender 3.2 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D app, from the new 3D painting tools to Light Groups and fast shadow caustics.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
Open Image Denoise now runs on GPU as well as CPU
Open-source render denoiser used in Arnold. Blender and V-Ray now supports AMD, Intel & Nvidia GPUs.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Omniverse gets Substance support, new UE5 live link
Option to use renderers like Cycles, OctaneRender and V-Ray inside Omniverse apps due soon.
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
New CGarchitect rendering survey shows trends in arch viz
V-Ray and Corona still dominate market, but UE4, Twinmotion and D5 Render all gaining ground.
Thursday, February 3rd, 2022