Make yourself look like Steve Jobs in Blender
See curiously disturbing digital make-up tests from Mango, the new Blender Foundation open movie.
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
Blender
Blender 2.60 ships
Leading open-source 3D package gets new audio and mocap tools. More bi-monthly updates to follow.
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
Blender to get brand new motion-capture toolset
Google Summer of Code work results in mocap import and retargeting, new 3D audio tools.
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Eye candy: the Blender Siggraph demo reel
The leading open-source app gets a demo reel to match its commercial rivals - and pretty cool it is too.
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Big Buck Bunny stars in 3Dconnexion mouse ad
Open-source movie mascot comes out of retirement to endorse native Blender support in 3D input devices.
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Blender gets cool new retopology add-on
Turn freehand strokes and loose edges into neat all-quad meshes with Eclectiel's Bsurfaces 1.5.
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Evermotion releases new unbiased renderer
Free open beta of NOX available even for commercial jobs. Includes plug-ins for 3ds Max and Blender.
Tuesday, July 12th, 2011
Video: Indigo Renderer 3.0 goes GPU-accelerated
Unbiased renderer to support CUDA and OpenCL-powered real-time materials and camera editing.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Blender accepted into Google Summer of Code
Student coders to be paid to help develop the popular open-source 3D package this summer.
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
New app lets you render animation via Facebook
RenderWeb taps the power of Facebook friends (and distributed rendering) to get jobs done faster.
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
New app exports Kinect motion data as BVH files
Japan's Actinia Software releases tool to export mocap from Kinect to 3ds Max, MotionBuilder, Blender.
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
New plug-in puts cloud rendering inside Blender
Developer of innovative GreenButton plug-in now working on versions for 3ds Max and Maya.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
In brief: the week's other product news
In bite-sized snippets: Blender 2.54, Thea Render, Indigo Renderer and Acropora 1.2.
Friday, September 24th, 2010