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Blender

Free GPU-based renderer available for Blender and Maya on Macs. Now supports volumetrics, too.

Monday, April 9th, 2018

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

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

Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.

Monday, February 26th, 2018

Posts now display 3D models interactively, with PBR materials, You can export directly from Modo.

Friday, February 23rd, 2018

Tuesday, February 13th, 2018

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

Updated: MakeHuman-style tool for creating custom 3D characters gets new hair library and hair shaders.

Sunday, January 28th, 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

Version 1.8 of the open-source physically based renderer also adds procedural objects, render-time instancing.

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

Download Dan Rožański's handy free alpha masks for creating bolts, pipes, valves, vents and panelling.

Sunday, December 3rd, 2017

Texture painting app gets support for layer instancing, live link to UE4 and 20 new procedural materials.

Thursday, November 23rd, 2017

Updated: Scan-based figures work in 3ds Max, Cinema 4D, Maya - and now Blender, Unity, Unreal Engine.

Sunday, November 12th, 2017