PSOFT releases Pencil+ 4.05 Line for Blender
Add-on brings the outline rendering toolset used on anime movies to the open-source 3D app. Now supports viewport rendering and EPS export.
Tuesday, October 31st, 2023
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Blender Foundation unveils Blender Apps
Custom versions of the open-source 3D software could be used as VFX and game pipeline tools.
Monday, November 7th, 2022
Blender Studio releases Flamenco 3
Set up a Blender render farm 'in five minutes' with the new version of the open-source render manager
Thursday, September 22nd, 2022
Intel becomes first corporate patron of Krita
Chip giant pledges €30,000/year to fund future development of the open-source digital painting app.
Monday, September 19th, 2022
Download BtoA: the free Arnold plugin for Blender
Community-made plugin lets you render Blender animations, VFX and visualisations in Autodesk's Arnold renderer.
Friday, July 15th, 2022
The FreeMoCap Project: markerless mocap for $100?
Promising open-source project aims to track bodies, fingers and faces on two consumer webcams.
Monday, July 26th, 2021
Blender add-on Node Relax lets you brush nodes into place
This brilliant new free add-on might be the most fun you'll ever have while keeping a node graph tidy.
Thursday, May 6th, 2021
Chaos Group teases new version of V-Ray for Blender
Facebook post hints at long-awaited public release of V-Ray with support for Blender 2.80+.
Monday, October 5th, 2020
Create free, facially rigged CG characters with MB-Lab 1.7.8
Promising open-source tool can now create 3D characters licensed for use in commercial games work.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Check out promising open-source 2D animation tool enve
Free app provides an interesting range of features, particularly for vector and motion design work.
Friday, January 3rd, 2020
Free tool Materialize converts photos to PBR materials
Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
CrowdMaster is a free crowd sim tool for Blender
Neat add-on provides a node-based workflow for scattering, flocking and creating simple crowd animations.
Wednesday, September 14th, 2016
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013