LuxCoreRender 2.2 ships
Open-source renderer gets new GI cache system, Disney BRDF material and Open Image Denoise. Now compatible with Blender 2.80.
Wednesday, October 2nd, 2019
Cycles
Blender 2.80 ships
Major update to the open-source 3D software ships after four years of planning and development. Discover its key features here.
Wednesday, July 31st, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.13 for Blender and 3ds Max
Tool for turning Blender scenes into 3D web apps gets support for Eevee shadows, Matcap materials, toon shading effects.
Monday, July 15th, 2019
Review: BOXX APEXX T3 workstation
Jason Lewis puts this powerful 3D workstation through a battery of real-world DCC benchmark tests.
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Cycles 4D gets principled shading, Cryptomatte support
Check out the new features in Insydium's Cinema 4D version of Blender's Cycles render engine.
Monday, April 8th, 2019
Review: AMD Radeon Pro WX 8200
Jason Lewis tests AMD's latest workstation graphics card against two of the competing Nvidia GPUs.
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Soft8Soft releases Verge3D 2.10 for 3ds Max and Blender
Tool for converting 3D scenes into interactive web apps gets support for VR and AR devices via WebXR.
Monday, February 11th, 2019
E-Cycles speeds up Blender GPU rendering
New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.
Monday, January 7th, 2019
Download the free D-NOISE plugin for Blender
Neat add-on uses Nvidia's AI-based OptiX tech to denoise renders, baked textures - and even photos.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2018
Blender 2.80 is now in beta. See the top 5 features here
Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.
Friday, November 30th, 2018
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
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