Graswald ships Gscatter 0.10

Free Blender object scattering tool gets its 'most powerful update yet'. Check out what's new in it, and in Graswald's online 3D plant library.

Sunday, April 9th, 2023

Download over 170 free 3D plants for Blender

Get BD3D's free asset pack The Plant Library, compatible with its Geo-Scatter tool. Commercial use.

Monday, March 6th, 2023

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

Try Blender's new node-based simulation framework

Long-awaited expansion of the Geometry Nodes system now available as an experimental branch of Blender.

Monday, November 28th, 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

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

Get Antoine Bagattini's free Blender add-on BagaPie V6

Check out the new procedural modelling and scattering tools in the popular 'all-in-one' add-on.

Monday, March 21st, 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

See Facebook Reality Labs' work on Cycles in Blender

New Alembic procedural speeds up viewport rendering of animation caches by up to 12x in Blender 3.0.

Monday, December 13th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya

Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.

Saturday, November 20th, 2021

Download free Maya object scattering tool Ecotope

Check out Polygonflow's scattering tool, available with the trial of its GraphN visual programming app.

Sunday, September 19th, 2021

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.2 for Blender and Maya

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets new toon shading mode and deformation motion blur.

Monday, July 12th, 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