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Thursday, December 23rd, 2021

Optimised version of Blender's Cycles engine makes rendering "up to 4x faster" on Nvidia RTX GPUs.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2020

New optimised version of Cycles renders up to 2.4x faster than standard Blender on CUDA GPUs.

Monday, January 7th, 2019

New Node Tools system will let artists package groups of Geometry Nodes into standard Edit Mode menu commands.

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Check out the neat $20 Geometry Nodes-based add-on, capable of generating simple, good-looking fluid sims in 'semi-realtime'.

Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

Check out the library of 16K heightmaps for generating high-res terrains, and a new Blender tool for creating custom erosion effects.

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

Motion-capture software gets better finger and prop tracking, plus better integration with MetaHumans.

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

Real-time ray tracing renderer becomes first DCC app to support NVIDIA's DLSS 3.5 and its AI-trained Ray Reconstruction denoiser.

Friday, September 22nd, 2023

New web app lets CG artists get 'clear and actionable feedback' on 3D models from collaborators and clients. Free for up to 5 projects.

Thursday, September 21st, 2023