AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.6 for Blender

GPU renderer switches from OpenCL to HIP for final-quality output. Maya and Houdini editions also updated.

Thursday, June 8th, 2023

Grease Pencil 3.0 is coming in Blender 4.0

Check out the changes planned for this major update to the open-source app's 2D animation toolset.

Wednesday, May 31st, 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

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

Insydium's NeXus coming to Blender, Maya and 3ds Max

GPU-based Cinema 4D particle, liquid and granular fluid simulation tool due in new host apps in 2023.

Tuesday, December 13th, 2022

AMD releases Radeon ProRender 3.5 for Blender

Free GPU renderer gets new bevel shader, better interactive rendering. New Maya and Houdini versions also available.

Tuesday, November 8th, 2022

Blender and 3DCoat tutorial: Designing a Military Aircraft

Learn time-saving tricks to speed up 3D concept design with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Friday, October 14th, 2022

Blender Studio releases Flamenco 3

Set up a Blender render farm 'in five minutes' with the new version of the open-source render manager

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91

See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2022

AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.4 for Blender and Maya

Free physically based renderer gets new Atmosphere and Fog system, shadow override controls.

Thursday, June 9th, 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

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

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