Volkswagen backs the Blender Development Fund
First automotve firm to back Blender to give at least €120k/year to the open-source 3D software.
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
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Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.10
Open-source game engine's new terrain system handles '16km x 16km worlds at high framerates'.
Friday, October 14th, 2022
7 CG products you may have missed in September 2022
See what's new in AMD's pro GPU drivers, and in tools like Clarisse, Redshift and Omniverse Create.
Thursday, October 6th, 2022
Autodesk announces Flow
First product to be released on Autodesk's new 'industry cloud' for M&E work like VFX and game dev will 'focus on asset management'.
Tuesday, September 27th, 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
Blender 3.3 LTS ships
See our pick of the 5 key new features in the open-source 3D software, from new hair grooming tools to better planar tracking.
Wednesday, September 7th, 2022
Check out open-source AI image upscaler Real-ESRGAN
Free image up-resing tool comes with dedicated AI models for photos, 2D illustrations and anime.
Monday, August 22nd, 2022
Adobe releases Substance 3D add-on for Blender 0.91
See what's new in this major compatibility-breaking update to the Substance plugin for Blender.
Tuesday, August 16th, 2022
Nvidia fully open-sources MDL
Open-source version of Material Definition Language to include the MDL Distiller and GLSL backend for real-time and viewport rendering.
Friday, August 12th, 2022
Autodesk open-sources RV
Updated: only "core components" of the award-winning image viewer and shot playback tool will be open-sourced, not the full product.
Thursday, August 11th, 2022
Nvidia announces plan to 'evolve USD beyond VFX'
Check out its roadmap for growing USD beyond the movie industry to become the 'foundation of the open metaverse'.
Tuesday, August 9th, 2022
Physically Based lists PBR values for real-world materials
Need to recreate ketchup in your CG software? This free online database has the info you need.
Monday, August 8th, 2022
Godot 3.5 ships
Check out the new features for CG artists in the open-source game engine, like the material overlay system and support for 3D text.
Monday, August 8th, 2022