Blender Institute releases Attract and Flamenco
Blender production tracking system and render manager used on the Institute's shorts now in public beta.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
Blender
Blend4Web 17.06 adds augmented reality support
Tool for converting Blender scenes into interactive web apps now creates AR as well as VR content.
Friday, July 7th, 2017
AMD updates Radeon ProRender for 3ds Max, Maya
Free GPU-based renderer now supports interactive viewport rendering and V-Ray materials.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Blender
Free, physically accurate GPU renderer now available for Blender, as well as Max, Maya, SolidWorks.
Thursday, June 29th, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender 2.8's new Grease Pencil features
Open-source 2D animation toolset gets its own dedicated workspace, new work modes and fill options.
Wednesday, June 14th, 2017
Get Midge Sinnaeve's free 8K landscape texture pack
Download 10 varied landscapes, each with 8K height, flow and normal maps, plus OBJ meshes. Commercial use.
Sunday, June 4th, 2017
3DtoAll ships MaxToBlender
Export 3ds Max scenes to Blender for rendering 'in two clicks'. Converts V-Ray materials to their Cycles equivalents automatically.
Friday, June 2nd, 2017
Blender gets Google funding for next-gen skinning system
GSoC-funded work to add implicit skinning to Blender to be overseen by ex-DreamWorks animation head Jason Schleifer.
Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
Paste models between 3D apps with this neat free tool
Paste geometry and UV maps between 3D packages with Oliver Hotz's OD_CopyPasteExternal.
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2017
Foundry unveils Elara
New cloud-based service will provide a complete VFX pipeline in a web browser, including software, storage, rendering and analytics.
Tuesday, April 25th, 2017
Arnaud Couturier ships SceneTerrain 1.0 for Blender
Neat add-on generates textured digital terrains, complete with water and instanced rocks and trees.
Tuesday, April 11th, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Blender 2.78b ships
New update improves speed of Blender's Cycles renderer over 10x on shots with motion blur and hair.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017