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Wednesday, March 18th, 2020
Blender
Adobe ships Substance Alchemist 2.1
Material authoring tool gets new export window with presets for UE4, Unity and common renderers.
Friday, March 13th, 2020
Arseniy Korablev releases Teya Conceptor
Unusual concept sculpting tool formerly known as Polybrush gets streamlined new UI, macOS edition.
Thursday, March 12th, 2020
Check out the Blender 3.0 and LTS product roadmap
Next big update to the open-source 3D software due in 2021, with long term support releases every year.
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020
ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant
The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender 2.3 for Blender
Free physically based GPU renderer gets support for Blender 2.82's new smoke and fire sims.
Monday, February 17th, 2020
Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.82
Significant update overhauls Blender's simulation tools and adds support for UDIMs and USD export.
Friday, February 14th, 2020
Rokoko launches Blender plugin for its mocap systems
New integration plugin lets users stream data to Blender from Rokoko's low-cost mocap suits.
Friday, February 7th, 2020
Review: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti
See how Nvidia's top-of-the-range gaming GPU performs in our real-world 3D and GPU rendering tests.
Thursday, February 6th, 2020
Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
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
Get neat free ZBrush texturing plugin ZBrush Compositor
Texture and light ZBrush sculpts in Substance Painter or Marmoset Toolbag without setting up UVs.
Thursday, January 16th, 2020
Get free USDZ file converter and viewer Reality Converter
Check out Apple's new app for converting 3D models to USDZ, along with free alternatives for Windows and Linux.
Tuesday, January 14th, 2020