Chaos Group teases new version of V-Ray for Blender
Facebook post hints at long-awaited public release of V-Ray with support for Blender 2.80+.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Blender 2.8
Mathieu Menuet unveils E-Cycles 2020 and RTX 2020
Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.
Tuesday, January 21st, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.81
The leading open-source 3D package gets another big update. Check out the key features here.
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
F12 ships The Grove Release 8
Major update to the biologically plausible tree-generation tool adds the option to record timelapse animations of your trees growing.
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
First release candidate for Blender 2.80 now available
The almost-final version of the long-awaited major update to Blender is now free to download.
Friday, July 12th, 2019
Quixel ships Bridge 2019.2
VFX-focused update to the asset management tool for Megascans scan data adds USD support, plus new integration for Clarisse iFX.
Wednesday, July 10th, 2019
E-Cycles speeds up Blender GPU rendering
New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.9 for Blender and 3ds Max
3ds Max edition now shipping: tool for converting 3D scenes to WebGL apps gets HDR render pipeline.
Friday, December 21st, 2018
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
F12 ships The Grove Release 7
Update moves the tree-generation tool over to Blender 2.8, improves performance, and makes it possible to re-edit your trees after creation.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2018
Edit Blender scenes in VR/AR with new free tool BlenderXR
Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.
Thursday, November 1st, 2018
Bforartists team releases Bforartists 1.0
Code fork intended to make Blender's interface more intuitive to use hits its first official release.
Monday, May 14th, 2018