Epic Games releases official Blender to Unreal Engine tools
Transfer rigged characters between Blender and UE4 with free plugins Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify.
Wednesday, July 15th, 2020
Blender
Download a free high-resolution timelapse HDRI sky
Get HDRMAPS' series of 300 free 9,256 x 4,628px EXR sky images. Licensed for commercial projects.
Friday, July 3rd, 2020
See Blender's Cycles renderer running in the Houdini viewport
Nifty work from Tangent Animation makes Cycles a Hydra delegate in Houdini's Solaris look dev toolset.
Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
Download over 90,000 free IES lighting files from IES Library
Browse real-world lighting data files for use in DCC or CAD software, complete with rendered previews.
Sunday, June 28th, 2020
Apple ditches Intel CPUs in Macs in favour of its own chips
See what the move to Apple Silicon will mean for CG tools like Maya, Photoshop, Blender and Octane X.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
Chaos Group launches the V-Ray Collection
$699/year subscription includes 11 editions of V-Ray, plus Phoenix FD, Project Lavina and VRScans assets.
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
Toolchefs releases Atoms Crowd 3.4
See the new features in the Maya and Houdini crowd animation tool. Now free for low-budget projects.
Thursday, June 11th, 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
Review: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X
See how AMD's flagship 64-core workstation CPU performs in Jason Lewis's real-world CG benchmarks.
Thursday, May 28th, 2020
Check out the new features coming up in Redshift 3.0
Check out the new features in the latest experimental build of the GPU production renderer.
Wednesday, May 27th, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 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
See Pablo Dobarro's cool new KeyMesh for Blender demo
Crazy new proof-of-concept feature may make it possible to create virtual claymation inside Blender.
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020