AMD unveils the Radeon Pro WX 8200
New Vega-based pro workstation GPU approaches the WX 9100 for compute power, but for just $999.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Cycles
Sneak peek: Blender 2.8 new principled hair shader
Neat new Cycles shader is based on work done by Disney for Zootopia, also used in V-Ray Next.
Monday, July 23rd, 2018
Blender 2.79a is here
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
Soft8Soft ships Verge3D 2.0
Newly updated tool coverts Blender scenes to interactive 3D web applications, complete with Cycles-compatible PBR materials.
Monday, February 26th, 2018
Robert McNeel & Associates ships Rhino 6 for Windows
Long-awaited update to NURBS modeller adds interactive viewport raytracing, node-based workflow.
Tuesday, January 30th, 2018
See the 10 hottest new features due in Blender in 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
Get Xolotl Studio's Substance Painter Live Link
Updated: neat plugin live links Substance Painter to Blender, Modo or Maya - and now 3ds Max and V-Ray.
Wednesday, October 25th, 2017
Check out the new features in Blender 2.79
Now officially released. New denoise system and PBR shader in Cycles, plus some great add-ons.
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
Blender Institute releases Attract and Flamenco
Blender production tracking system and render manager used on the Institute's shorts now in public beta.
Thursday, July 13th, 2017
3DtoAll ships MaxToBlender
Export 3ds Max scenes to Blender for rendering 'in two clicks'. Converts V-Ray materials to their Cycles equivalents automatically.
Friday, June 2nd, 2017
Sneak peek: Blender's new Eevee real-time render engine
Check out the feature set for the new, not-quite-PBR real-time render engine due in Blender 2.8 this year.
Friday, March 24th, 2017
Blender 2.78b ships
New update improves speed of Blender's Cycles renderer over 10x on shots with motion blur and hair.
Tuesday, February 14th, 2017
Insydium ships Cycles 4D
Promising new plugin implements Blender's powerful GPU-based renderer and node-based materials inside Cinema 4D.
Thursday, November 17th, 2016