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3D texture painting software gets new Vulkan-based geometry map baking system, and more procedural texturing nodes

Monday, December 4th, 2023

Now shipping: update to real-time rendering toolkit extends OpenUSD support, adds support for rendering EXR sequences.

Monday, August 7th, 2023

Check out the new features in this wide-ranging update to the renderer, including USD export.

Wednesday, February 15th, 2023

Real-time rendering and look dev app gets new texture painting features, light baking, USD support.

Tuesday, January 24th, 2023

3D texture painting app gets new teleport node system to remove visual clutter from the node graph. Perpetual licences now discontinued.

Friday, August 12th, 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

See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.

Thursday, October 28th, 2021

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

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

Just one of a new round of updates to Nvidia's collaboration platform to be announced at Siggraph 2021.

Tuesday, August 10th, 2021

Modelling and rendering app gets new Curve Booleans system, plus updates to scene testing, the mPath renderer, and USD support.

Friday, July 23rd, 2021

Big update to the look dev and rendering tool adds USD exporter, Arnold-compatible material and intuitive new lighting workflows.

Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Big update to the compositing apps adds new Hydra viewport, ground-breaking machine learning toolset.

Wednesday, March 17th, 2021

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