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Neat Geometry Nodes set-up adds detailed 3D moss, flowers, and even sea creatures to your scenes. The base edition is free.

Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source game engine, including updates to rendering, lightmaps and GPU particles.

Friday, December 1st, 2023

Discover the latest changes to the open-source 3D app, from Geometry Nodes, Cycles and shading to the Viewport Compositor.

Tuesday, November 14th, 2023

Promising tool lets you set up a USD-based VFX pipeline 'out of the box'. Works with Blender, Maya, Houdini, Nuke, UE5 and ZBrush.

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

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

Find assets for the open-source 3D software in top Blender news site BlenderNation's curated directory of models, add-ons and training.

Sunday, October 29th, 2023

Blenderesse's neat add-on generates animated 3D birds for use in the backgrounds of animations or motion graphics. Now free in beta.

Friday, October 27th, 2023

Check out the new features in the open-source digital painting app, including the Wide Color Gamut Color Selector and new text engine.

Monday, October 23rd, 2023

'Highly experimental' replacement for OpenGL for real-time and viewport rendering now available in alpha builds of Blender 4.1.

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Check out the new features in the open-source game engine and new third-party add-ons like this volumetric cloudscapes system.

Wednesday, October 11th, 2023

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

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Re-Logic's donation to the open-source game engine was made in protest at Unity's controversial proposed new Unity Runtime Fee.

Wednesday, September 20th, 2023

Open-source plugin architecture will let you send assets from the Substance 3D applications direct to Blender, 3ds Max and Maya.

Tuesday, September 12th, 2023