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

Get free Cesium plugins for UE5, O3DE, Unity, Omniverse

Open-source geospatial data plugins create full-scale replicas of the Earth inside game engines.

Saturday, March 25th, 2023

Pablo Dobarro releases CozyBlanket 2.0

Easy-to-use iPad retopology app now also supports UV unwrapping, UV packing and texture baking.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

7 CG products you may have missed in September 2022

See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.

Thursday, October 6th, 2022

Epic Games joins the Open 3D Foundation

Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.

Monday, July 25th, 2022

Material Maker 1.0 is out

Hotly tipped open-source material authoring and 3D texture painting app gets its milestone 1.0 release. Check out all of its new features.

Sunday, July 24th, 2022

iPad app CozyBlanket puts the fun back into retopology

Ex-Blender dev Pablo Dobarro's app lets you topologise 3D models by sketching in new edge flows.

Friday, May 6th, 2022

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Free tools: Material Maker now also does 3D painting

Promising open-source node-based material authoring tool gets new 3D texture painting toolset.

Wednesday, July 7th, 2021

Which CG applications support Apple's new M1 chips?

Discover which 3D, image-editing and rendering apps will support the first Apple Silicon processors when they ship next week.

Friday, November 13th, 2020

Amazon ships Lumberyard 1.24

Check out the changes to PhysX physics, cloth simulation and collision geometry in the latest version of the free game engine.

Friday, May 22nd, 2020

ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Get free procedural texture generator Material Maker

Neat open-source tool authors PBR texture maps using a Substance Designer-like node graph workflow. 0.8 update now out.

Sunday, January 26th, 2020