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3D engine

Powerful enterprise-grade real-time 3D engine now available free for indie games and VFX projects.

Tuesday, April 14th, 2020

Compositor to get new 3D engine, overhauled UI, support for Alembic and OpenColorIO, new roto tools.

Saturday, September 21st, 2013

PureRef 2.1 is out

Sizeable update to the popular reference image organization tool adds grid snapping, batch image processing and more drawing tools.

Sunday, February 8th, 2026

Master Houdini's powerful fluid simulation toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide for VFX and games artists.

Sunday, February 8th, 2026

UE5-based renderer shipped with the Silo modeling software now supports real-time ray tracing on Mac and path tracing on Windows.

Friday, February 6th, 2026

Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.

Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Updated: new release candidate for the core glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Thursday, February 5th, 2026

Helldivers 2 dev becomes Blender's third new corporate sponsor in two weeks, donating €30,000/year towards the open-source 3D app.

Wednesday, February 4th, 2026