5 key features in Blender 4.3

Now available: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Physical Water FX adds good-looking water surfaces in Blender

Promising add-on creates surface water complete with ripples, foam, rain splashes and floating debris. Works with Cycles and Eevee.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024

Free Nuke plugin pScatter 'breaks up your perfect CG renders'

Handy add-on uses position data to add imperfections to renders from 3D applications like Blender, Houdini and Maya within Nuke.

Sunday, September 29th, 2024

Eevee Next finally arrives in Blender

Discover how to port old scenes to use the long-awaited overhaul of the Eevee renderer ahead of its release in Blender 4.2 next week.

Friday, July 12th, 2024

Baga Grove lets you 'draw' plants into your Blender scenes

Neat plugin lets users draw outlines in the viewport and have them filled automatically with naturally randomized sets of 3D plants.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

Get engon, polygoniq's open-source Blender asset browser

Free add-on adds advanced filtering and scattering tools to Blender. You can get 80 free assets with it, including 3D plants and vehicles.

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

Polyqoniq releases botaniq 7.0 for Blender

Popular library of 3D plants updated to work with polygoniq's open-source engon asset browser. Download 38 of the assets for free.

Sunday, January 28th, 2024

Blender 4.0 will let you create your own node-based tools

New Node Tools system will let artists package groups of Geometry Nodes into standard Edit Mode menu commands.

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Treezy generates animated trees inside Blender

Lightweight add-on generates customisable wind-animated trees inside the open-source 3D app. Check out the Treezy 1.1 update.

Wednesday, August 9th, 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

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's simulation nodes are coming in Blender 3.6

Long-awaited node-based simulation system reaches the daily builds of the open-source 3D app.

Friday, May 5th, 2023

Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V10

Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.

Saturday, April 29th, 2023