Otoy backs the Blender Development Fund

OctaneRender developer becomes Blender's latest Corporate Patron, contributing at least €240,000/year to the open-source 3D software.

Friday, February 9th, 2024

Volkswagen backs the Blender Development Fund

First automotve firm to back Blender to give at least €120k/year to the open-source 3D software.

Sunday, October 16th, 2022

Reallusion backs the Blender Development Fund

New tools to improve workflow between Blender and iClone and Character Creator due this year.

Thursday, January 6th, 2022

Adobe backs Blender Development Fund

Software giant's Gold sponsorship provides €30,000/year to help develop the open-source 3D app.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund

GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.

Monday, October 7th, 2019

Ubisoft joins the Blender Development Fund

Ubisoft donates €30,000/year to fund development; will adopt Blender in its TV animation studio.

Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019

Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development

Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

Epic Games funds Blender development

Game developer donates €10,000 to Blender dev fund in order to improve FBX export to Unreal Engine 4.

Monday, July 7th, 2014

Master 2D & 3D Character Design in Photoshop & Blender

Discover the fundamental principles of character design with The Gnomon Workshop's new introductory tutorial.

Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

Find free Blender resources and tutorials at BlenderNation Bazaar

Find assets for the open-source 3D software in top Blender news site BlenderNation's curated directory of models, add-ons and training.

Sunday, October 29th, 2023

Terraria developer donates $100,000 to Godot development

Re-Logic's donation to the open-source game engine was made in protest at Unity's controversial proposed new Unity Runtime Fee.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

See the 2023 Blender development roadmap

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

Tuesday, May 9th, 2023

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