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3D modelling and animation app gets new Blue Pencil annotation toolset, plus updates to Boolean modelling, retopology and Bifrost.

Wednesday, March 30th, 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 how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.

Monday, January 24th, 2022

Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.

Friday, December 10th, 2021

See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.

Thursday, November 25th, 2021

Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.

Tuesday, November 16th, 2021

Major update to the renderer adds Open Image Denoise and real-time colour correction, and extends Arnold GPU and USD workflows.

Tuesday, October 19th, 2021

See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.

Thursday, October 14th, 2021

Updated, new demo: Check out the FAQs for Clarisse iFX's next-gen CPU/GPU render engine, and see how it performs on gaming GPUs.

Friday, September 17th, 2021

Redshift 3.0.51 update streamlines the GPU renderer's user interface. Blender plugin gets support for OSL shaders and UDIM textures.

Thursday, August 12th, 2021

Major update gives Adobe's material authoring tool a complete new procedural modelling toolkit.

Thursday, June 24th, 2021

GPU renderer for 3ds Max, Blender, C4D, Houdini and Maya gets new OCIO 2-based colour management system, including ACEScg support.

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021

New RDNA 2 GPUs are AMD's first workstation cards built for modern hardware-accelerated ray tracing.

Wednesday, June 9th, 2021

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