Unity to pay $120,000/year to fund Blender development

Donation to the open-source 3D app's dev fund will help fund 20 full-time core Blender developers.

Sunday, August 23rd, 2020

Otoy ships Sculptron Alpha 2

Latest free build of Otoy's new tool for sculpting animation caches speeds up playback 'about 10x' and adds a readymade toon material.

Friday, July 17th, 2020

JangaFX releases EmberGen 0.5.5

Real-time gaseous fluid simulator gets neat new GPU particle system for finer, wispier smoke effects.

Friday, July 17th, 2020

Superluminal ships Stardust 1.6 for After Effects

Versatile 3D particle system now supports volumetric rendering for effects like smoke, fire and dust.

Thursday, July 16th, 2020

Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.83 LTS

The open-source 3D software's first ever Long Term Support release comes packed with new features. Check them out here.

Thursday, June 4th, 2020

AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.4 for Blender

Free physically accurate GPU renderer gets experimental new 'next gen' mode with support for out-of-core geometry.

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

EmberGen is now in beta

JangaFX's hotly tipped real-time gaseous fluid simulation tool gets a node graph and animation timeline - and an unlimited new trial edition.

Monday, May 4th, 2020

NewTek ships LightWave 2020

3D animation and rendering app gets new GI system, improved SSS and hair shading, and support for Disney's Partio particles library.

Friday, April 24th, 2020

Insydium releases Cycles 4D Build 500

Major update to the Cinema 4D edition of the Cycles renderer adds GPU ray racing and custom AOVs.

Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

Deep FX releases Deep Rising FX 3.0

LightWave fluid simulation plugin gets support for motion blur, velocity maps and fluid colours.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2020

LuxCoreRender 2.3 and BlendLuxCore 2.3 ship

Open-source renderer gets support for glTF export, triplanar mapping. Blender plugin supports some Cycles light settings.

Monday, March 23rd, 2020

Download six free fire, smoke and explosion simulations

Get JangaFX's free stock simulation elements created in its EmberGen software. VDB format, CC0 licence.

Saturday, March 7th, 2020

Michael Christophersson ships Ramma 1.25

Neat tool auto-detects bad frames in rendered sequences. Now on Linux as well as Windows, macOS.

Wednesday, January 1st, 2020