Intel becomes latest Blender Corporate Patron
Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
AMD
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
e-on software ships Vue and PlantFactory 2021.2
Digital nature tools get new Omniverse connector, support for Redshift and RenderMan materials.
Friday, December 10th, 2021
Otoy unveils Octane 2022
Check out next year's roadmap for the GPU renderer, and the new features in OctaneRender 2022.1 XB0, the first public preview build.
Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer
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
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs
Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
Blender 3.1 to introduce native Metal support in Cycles
New macOS backend unveiled as Apple becomes a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund.
Sunday, October 17th, 2021
Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs - 2021
See how Nvidia and AMD's current pro GPUs perform in real-world tests, from modeling to rendering.
Thursday, October 14th, 2021
AMD introduces Radeon Pro Image Boost for 3ds Max
Viewport rendering tech lets users of AMD's pro GPUs view models with 4K clarity on HD monitors.
Friday, October 1st, 2021
Isotropix unveils Angie
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
hdRstr ray traces thousands of area lights in real time
Neat Maya and Houdini add-on lets you edit ultra-complex lighting set-ups interactively in the viewport.
Tuesday, September 14th, 2021