Group test: Nvidia Quadro, Titan and GeForce RTX GPUs
Which Nvidia GPU is best for DCC work? Jason Lewis benchmarks the firm's new Turing graphics cards.
Friday, October 11th, 2019
Blender
Check out neat retopology tool QuadRemesher
Updated: now available for Blender. Exoside's new tool turns messy models into clean all-quad meshes.
Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Nvidia backs Blender Development Fund
GPU firm's €120,000/year Patron level support will fund two more devs for the open-source 3D app.
Monday, October 7th, 2019
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.15 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into browser apps adds support for game controllers - from VR devices to steering wheels.
Friday, October 4th, 2019
LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships
Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
Andrei Sarmadac and Kun Shi release Rocket 3F 1.8
Streamlined modeling software gets new portable edition that can be run from a flash drive.
Friday, September 20th, 2019
Appleseed team releases appleseed 2.1
Open-source physically based renderer gets Cryptomatte support. neat new sampling control system.
Monday, September 16th, 2019
Download 24 free environment sculpting brushes
Get 24 free brushes for sculpting natural and man-made materials, in Blender format and as PNG files.
Sunday, September 15th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.14 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into web apps now exports interactive parametric models to your browser.
Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
Get stock 3D models and materials from BlendFab
Updated: this online library of architectural models and materials for Blender users has now closed down.
Sunday, August 25th, 2019
Eye candy: Blender's Siggraph 2019 demo reel
Watch a one-minute run-down of the award-winning shorts and R&D projects used to test Blender 2.80.
Tuesday, August 6th, 2019
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.0 for Blender
AMD ships new version of the free GPU renderer for Blender 2.80, plus update to the Maya plugin.
Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
Modo, KeyShot and Blender to support RTX-based rendering
All three applications to support hardware-accelerated ray tracing on Nvidia's RTX GPUs in future.
Thursday, August 1st, 2019