Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender

Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.

Friday, July 15th, 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

Free plugin puts a playable 3D Mario in any Blender scene

Control your favourite 3D plumber inside the Blender viewport with the neat libsm64-blender plugin.

Monday, March 14th, 2022

Amazon Web Services is now a Blender Corporate Patron

Tech giant's donation ensures at least €360,000 in funding to overhaul Blender's animation tools.

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020

Facebook becomes Corporate Patron of Blender

Social media giant is the most suprising $120,000+/year backer of the open-source 3D software so far.

Friday, November 20th, 2020

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

Microsoft becomes latest tech giant to back Blender

Strings-free €30,000/year donation will help pay for new Blender staff - now including non-developers.

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

Try this impressive new FLIP fluid simulator for Blender

Sign up to beta test Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender's production-ready fluid solver for Blender 2.79.

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

Blender gets Google funding for next-gen skinning system

GSoC-funded work to add implicit skinning to Blender to be overseen by ex-DreamWorks animation head Jason Schleifer.

Wednesday, May 10th, 2017

Arnaud Couturier ships SceneTerrain 1.0 for Blender

Neat add-on generates textured digital terrains, complete with water and instanced rocks and trees.

Tuesday, April 11th, 2017

Mesh multiphysics systems in Blender with CubeSurfer

New work-in-progress add-on surfaces particle simulations ranging from water to wet snow.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2015

Storm HydroFX 1.0 is a GPU-based standalone FLIP fluid simulator

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.

Wednesday, January 21st, 2026

Dimension 5 launches D5 Render 3.0 and D5 Lite

Check out the new features in this major update to the GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool and its new lightweight edition.

Thursday, January 15th, 2026