Otoy unveils the Octane 2024 product roadmap

Check out the features due in the GPU renderer in 2024, including MaterialX support, new AI assistant OctaneGPT, and light field baking.

Tuesday, November 28th, 2023

Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

5 key features in Blender 3.6

Read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software: from Simulation Nodes and GPU ray tracing to neat hidden bonuses.

Tuesday, June 27th, 2023

Grease Pencil 3.0 is coming in Blender 4.0

Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.

Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

Check out the new Blender 4.x release schedule

Open-source 3D software to move to three releases per year to ease pressure on developers and TDs.

Monday, February 27th, 2023

Blender Foundation unveils the Animation 2025 Project

Ambitious three-year plan to revamp Blender's rigging and animation tools begins next year.

Thursday, December 1st, 2022

Blender will no longer ditch the VFX Reference platform

Open-source 3D app to revert to supporting the industry standard after criticism from VFX artists.

Thursday, September 29th, 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

See the new sculpting features due in Blender in 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 3.0 ships

Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.

Friday, December 3rd, 2021

Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs

Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021

New Blender 3.0 release date announced

Milestone update to the open-source 3D software now due for a stable release early in December.

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

Discover 5 key new features from Blender 2.93 LTS

See the highlights of today's update to the open-source 3D app, from sculpting to 2D animation.

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2021