Pixar releases RenderMan 21 Non-Commercial
Free version of Pixar's production renderer now available for learning, personal use, plugin development.
Wednesday, November 16th, 2016
Blender
Maxon picks AMD's Radeon ProRender for Cinema 4D
OpenCL-based GPU render engine will be integrated into Cinema 4D over the next few release cycles.
Monday, October 31st, 2016
New Blender add-on makes UV packing like playing Tetris
Vilem Novak's amazing free GPack 'gravity packer' tool puts the fun back into your UV packing work.
Tuesday, October 25th, 2016
Blender's Cycles renderer is coming to Cinema 4D
Updated: X-Particles dev Insydium posts price info and full demo video for its upcoming Cycles 4D plugin.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
Check out the new features in Blender 2.78
Now shipping: Open-source 3D app gets cool new curve sketching tool, 'Bendy Bones', Alembic import.
Friday, September 30th, 2016
CrowdMaster is a free crowd sim tool for Blender
Neat add-on provides a node-based workflow for scattering, flocking and creating simple crowd animations.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016
Eye candy: Blender's 2016 Cycles demo reel
See the best new work created using the open-source 3D app, from cartoon shorts to photorealistic VFX.
Tuesday, September 13th, 2016
Triumph releases Blend4Web 16.08
Toolset for turning Blender scenes into interactive web apps gets improved Normal Editor, more shading options.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
Lucas Veber releases Auto-Rig Pro
Minions animator's $10 Blender add-on creates detailed, production ready full-body and facial rigs.
Monday, August 22nd, 2016
Blender add-on mimics the PxrDisney shader in Cycles
Updated: Onelvxe Studios' add-on mimics RenderMan's 'ubershader' in Blender. Now a paid-for product as well as a free beta.
Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Download Grease Pencil V2 for Windows
Grease Pencil turns Blender into a free, bones-based 2D animation toolset. Try the new version here.
Tuesday, July 5th, 2016
LuxRender 1.6 ships
Open-source renderer gets new shadowcatcher system, plus variance clamping to reduce artefacts in renders.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
F12 ships The Grove Release 3
Promising new tree-generation tool gets intelligent polygon reduction, new advanced growth parameters.
Thursday, March 31st, 2016