AMD releases USD Hydra plugin for Blender 1.1
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
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Check out amazing free 3D anatomy reference Z-Anatomy
New 'open-source atlas' of human anatomy is available as a custom Blender file and an Android app.
Thursday, May 26th, 2022
Download 3,000 free mocap moves from Bandai Namco
Games firm's R&D division releases massive set of mocap data, plus free Blender BVH import script.
Thursday, May 19th, 2022
Inkscape 1.2 ships
Open-source vector design tool gets batch image export, support for multi-page documents, plus a lot of workflow improvements.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Open Image Denoise now runs on GPU as well as CPU
Open-source render denoiser used in Arnold. Blender and V-Ray now supports AMD, Intel & Nvidia GPUs.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Check out neat real-time Godot rendering demo Myra
Android tech demo shows what can be achieved in mobile games using the open-source engine.
Tuesday, May 17th, 2022
Open 3D Foundation releases Open 3D Engine 22.05
Open-source game engine gets new animation synthesis system, 'remixable materials', updates to the Atom renderer.
Friday, May 13th, 2022
Blender 3.1 ships
Read our pick of the 5 key changes to the open-source 3D software, from faster renders in Cycles to new procedural modelling nodes.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Download free virtual reality 3D sketching app Open Brush
Create concept art and VR assets using this promising open-source successor to Google's Tilt Brush.
Thursday, February 24th, 2022
See the new sculpting features due in Blender in 2022
3D painting directly in Sculpt mode and interactive previews in Eevee due in the open-source 3D app in the next few releases.
Monday, February 21st, 2022
Get free Blender add-ons BlendArTrack & BlendArMocap
Try promising open-source add-ons for camera tracking and markerless facial, finger and body mocap.
Wednesday, February 9th, 2022
Blender Studio releases Watchtower
New free web-based production tracking tool provides a visual overview of a movie or animation.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022
5 industry stories you may have missed in January 2022
See news of Autodesk's latest acquisition, Blender's latest backer, and a free glossary of virtual production terms.
Tuesday, February 1st, 2022