Group test: AMD and Nvidia professional GPUs 2013
Jason Lewis puts 11 of the leading current workstation graphics cards through a battery of real-world tests.
Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Blender
The Blender Foundation responds to UI criticisms
Post on the Blender development blog points out difficulties of UI redesign, proposes working group.
Thursday, October 24th, 2013
Video: what Blender's interface should look like
Watch Blender Guru's Andrew Price analyse the software's 'broken' UI, then comment on his own proposals.
Thursday, October 17th, 2013
Video: why Blender's interface is 'broken'
Before you post your flames... watch Andrew Price's detailed and well-researched video in its entirety.
Friday, September 27th, 2013
The Peachy Printer: a DIY 3D printer for under CAD $100
Back the Kickstarter campaign and get a kit of parts to build your own photolithographic printer for $100.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence
Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Otoy releases OctaneRender for Blender beta
Blender joins growing list of apps to work natively with the GPU-based renderer. Calls for Modo growing.
Friday, August 16th, 2013
Blender 2.68 ships
Open-source 3D package gets new modelling tools, improved smoke sims, up to 30% render speed boost.
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
Pixar to release OpenSubdiv 2.0 at Siggraph 2013
Change of licence type makes Pixar's in-house subdivision surface modeling tech compatible with Blender.
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Eye candy: En Passant
Created in Blender, this 15-minute mafia musical has a Burton-esque flair - and a score to die for.
Friday, July 5th, 2013
Blender to get sketch mesh editing, deformation blur?
Just two of fifteen Blender development projects to be funded by Google's Summer of Code 2013.
Friday, May 31st, 2013
The Blender Foundation releases Blender 2.67
Update to the open-source 3D tool adds integration with the versatile Freestyle toon rendering engine.
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
Molecular add-on brings multiphysics to Blender
Jean-Francois Gallant's new script unifies particle, cloth and fluid sims - and even pasta simulation.
Thursday, May 2nd, 2013