Radical now supports real-time facial motion-capture

Browser-based AI mocap platform now extracts facial and full-body animation from the same video. Available with free subscriptions.

Friday, December 22nd, 2023

Physical Open Waters generates oceans in Blender in real time

Physical Addons' promising plugin generates photorealistic animated ocean surfaces, and is lightweight enough to run on a laptop.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2023

Blender.org recovering from the largest cyberattack in its history

Main Blender website and downloads of the open-source 3D app restored after DDoS attack, but online documentation still down.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

GeoTracker for Blender is now production-ready

Check out the new features in the stable release of the inuitive 3D tracking tool, like automatic texture extraction and video stablilization.

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

Wonder Studio gets new Blender and Maya plugins

Free add-ons help prepare your 3D characters for use on the AI-powered online platform for adding CG characters to live action scenes.

Thursday, November 16th, 2023

5 key features in Blender 4.0

Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

Tutorial: Creating Stopmotion Felt in Substance 3D Designer

Get to grips with the powerful procedural material-authoring software with The Gnomon Workshop's artist-friendly guide.

Wednesday, November 8th, 2023

Łukasz Czyż releases UVPackmaster 3.2 for Blender

GPU-accelerated UV packing plugin gets new UV tracking and stacking systems. Now available for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Monday, November 6th, 2023

PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4.05 Line for Blender

Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.

Tuesday, October 31st, 2023

Find free Blender resources and tutorials at BlenderNation Bazaar

Find assets for the open-source 3D software in top Blender news site BlenderNation's curated directory of models, add-ons and training.

Sunday, October 29th, 2023

Check out this procedural bird generator for Blender

Blenderesse's neat add-on generates animated 3D birds for use in the backgrounds of animations or motion graphics. Now free in beta.

Friday, October 27th, 2023

Blender's new Vulkan rendering backend has gone live

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

DeepMotion launches DeepMotion Animate 3D 5.0

Big update to the browser-based AI mocap system makes it possible to capture up to eight characters from a single video.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023