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Update incorporates the new GPU-accelerated Cycles raytracing engine into the open source 3D app.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Chip giant pledges €30,000/year to fund future development of the open-source digital painting app.

Monday, September 19th, 2022

See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.

Tuesday, February 1st, 2022

Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.

Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

Thursday, March 13th, 2025

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Tuesday, February 18th, 2025

Check out self-taught animator SouthernShotty's inspirational animation breakdown for his 13-minute, one-person Blender short.

Monday, April 22nd, 2024

Get over 100 species of grasses and flowers in FBX or Alembic format, or for use with the Gscatter Blender plugin. For commercial use.

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

Convert 3D assets from over 50 common file formats, including Blender scene files. Runs securely offline using WebAssembly.

Monday, September 11th, 2023

Handy new add-on makes it possible to import Blender scenes directly into Unreal Engine 4 and 5.

Wednesday, October 5th, 2022

Godot 3.5 ships

Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.

Monday, August 8th, 2022

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

Monday, July 25th, 2022

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