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Open-source physically based renderer gets new denoiser, plus option to pause and resume renders via the Blender plugin.

Monday, January 21st, 2019

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Saturday, January 12th, 2019

New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.

Monday, January 7th, 2019

Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.

Tuesday, December 11th, 2018

Is it the first time an open-source app has won a major movie and broadcast industry tech award?

Friday, December 7th, 2018

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

Handy add-on distributes textures across a surface. Uses range from PBR materials to motion graphics.

Monday, November 26th, 2018

Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

OpenCL-based GPU renderer gets updated materials library. Blender version gets procedural UV mapping.

Saturday, November 17th, 2018

Fans offer support for open-source character creation tool in wake of dev's decision to stop further work.

Monday, November 12th, 2018

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Neat new $35 plugin lets users retopologise models by drawing poly sheets across their surface.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2018