Blender 2.74 ships
Check out the Viewport 2.0-style viewport AO and depth of field; better hair dynamics and planar tracking.
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015
Blender
Is this the most demanding 3D benchmark test yet?
Torture your CPU with a 240MB scene file from new Blender Institute CG short Cosmos Laundromat.
Monday, March 23rd, 2015
Free Blender shader turns 3D models into pixel art
Toshihiro Kushizaki's Pixel Art Shader renders any polygonal model as a retro-style BMP image.
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015
LuxRender 1.4 ships
Free physically based renderer moves to new core architecture; renders 'at least two times faster'.
Monday, February 9th, 2015
Mesh multiphysics systems in Blender with CubeSurfer
New work-in-progress add-on surfaces particle simulations ranging from water to wet snow.
Tuesday, January 20th, 2015
Bullet and Naiad creators win Academy Awards
This year's Sci-Tech 'Oscars' reward advances in destruction physics, voxel data and digital vegetation.
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015
Blender 2.73 ships
Open-source 3D package gets new 2D animation tools, updated video editor, clutter-free fullscreen mode.
Friday, January 9th, 2015
Check out 2015's hottest Blender R&D projects
Blender Foundation chairman Ton Roosendaal previews the software's upcoming features: from stereo 3D to Alembic and Ptex support.
Monday, January 5th, 2015
See Blender 2.73's new grease pencil tool in action
For You, Daniel M Lara's one-minute animated short, shows off the upcoming release's drawing tools.
Monday, December 8th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies unveils Thea Render 1.4
Hybrid renderer to support motion blur, displacement, render channels on GPU. New OpenCL port soon.
Monday, November 17th, 2014
Evermotion releases NOX renderer as open source
Unbiased renderer for 3ds Max, Blender and Cinema 4D now available to integrate into other apps.
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
GPUBox Artist builds you an instant GPU render farm
Renegatt Software's virtualization tool lets Blender or Octane access any CUDA GPU on your network.
Tuesday, August 26th, 2014
Check system performance with BlenchMark
Free Blender-based benchmarking tool tests both CPU and GPU and reports results to a central website.
Monday, July 28th, 2014