5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021
Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.
Friday, December 31st, 2021
open source
Open 3D Engine gets first stable release, 2022 roadmap
Check out the new features in the 'AAA-capable' open-source game engine built on AWS's Lumberyard.
Thursday, December 30th, 2021
Intel becomes latest Blender Corporate Patron
Open-source 3D app now receives at least €120,000/year from all major CPU and GPU manufacturers.
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2021
Download 290+ free MaterialX materials from AMD's library
New GPUOpen MaterialX library provides free PBR materials in the new open format for look dev data.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Blender 3.0 ships
Updated: see our pick of the five key changes in this milestone release of the open-source 3D app, from Cycles X to the Pose Library.
Friday, December 3rd, 2021
Check out the new features in Blender's Cycles X renderer
See how the major rewrite of the renderer has evolved from initial alpha to its release in Blender 3.0 next week.
Thursday, November 25th, 2021
AMD ships Radeon ProRender 3.3 for Blender and Maya
Free GPU renderer gets better support for fog, smoke and clouds, plus Deep EXR export from Maya.
Saturday, November 20th, 2021
Blender 3.0's Cycles X now runs on AMD GPUs
Latest beta of Blender 3.0 supports GPU rendering on AMD cards via the open source HIP framework.
Tuesday, November 16th, 2021
Godot 3.4 ships
Open-source game engine gets better tonemapping, new UI theme editor, glTF export for editing scenes in DCC apps like Blender.
Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Get Antoine Bagattini's free Ivy Generator for Blender
Architectural artist's neat free tool automatically generates 3D ivy across any mesh inside Blender.
Wednesday, November 10th, 2021
Check out the Blender 3.x product roadmap
See the key changes planned for the open-source 3D software from Blender 3.0 to Blender 3.7 in 2023.
Thursday, October 28th, 2021
ArmorPaint 0.8 ships
Huge update to the open-source 3D texture painting app adds real-time path tracing, edge wear materials, decals, and live links to Blender and Maya.
Friday, October 22nd, 2021