See Hero, a steampunk 2D short made entirely in Blender
Action-packed animated short demonstrates the potential of Blender 2.8's Grease Pencil tools.
Wednesday, April 18th, 2018
Blender
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.3 for 3ds Max
Framework for converting Max scenes into browser-based apps adds support for V-Ray materials.
Tuesday, April 17th, 2018
AMD ships Radeon ProRender plugins for macOS
Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.
Monday, April 9th, 2018
Autodesk ships Mudbox 2018.2
First major update to the digital sculpting tool in years adds neat new dynamic tessellation system, plus support for HiDPI displays.
Thursday, March 15th, 2018
Blender 2.79a is here
Open-source 3D software gets over 200 bugfixes, plus 10% speed boost to Cycles renders when using CUDA GPUs in Windows.
Friday, March 2nd, 2018
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.0
Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Facebook introduces glTF 2.0 support for 'richer 3D posts'
Posts now display 3D models interactively, with PBR materials, You can export directly from Modo.
Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Try this impressive new FLIP fluid simulator for Blender
Sign up to beta test Ryan Guy and Dennis Fassbaender's production-ready fluid solver for Blender 2.79.
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D
Updated: turn 3D assets created in Blender - and now also in 3ds Max - into interactive scenes you can view in a standard web browser.
Friday, February 9th, 2018
Create free CG characters with Manuel Bastioni Lab 1.6.1
Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 2018
Read the Blender Foundation's pick of the top dev projects, from the Eevee PBR viewport renderer to 'Animation 2020'.
Thursday, January 4th, 2018
Appleseed renderer gets new native Maya plugin
Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.
Tuesday, December 5th, 2017
Get 21 free hard-surface alphas for ZBrush and Substance
Download Dan Rožański's handy free alpha masks for creating bolts, pipes, valves, vents and panelling.
Sunday, December 3rd, 2017