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Videos: See five things to love about the open-source 3D app, from the new UI to rendering and 2D animation tools.

Friday, November 30th, 2018

Handy add-on distributes textures across a surface. Uses range from PBR materials to motion graphics.

Monday, November 26th, 2018

Open-source tool finds the camera position for real-world backplates for use in VFX or composited stills.

Wednesday, November 21st, 2018

Download over 100 free materials, MetaNodes and atmospheres for e-on's landscape-generation app.

Thursday, November 15th, 2018

Open-source physically based renderer gets new toon shading and image post-processing options.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2018

Place, edit and annotate assets in virtual and mixed reality with this neat open-source user interface.

Thursday, November 1st, 2018

Game dev Mike Voeller's promising free app turns source images into texture maps for PBR shading.

Thursday, October 18th, 2018

Lighting TD's free 'Arnold to Nuke display plugin' lets users render directly into Nuke's UI from Maya, Cinema 4D - and now Houdini.

Monday, September 24th, 2018

Open-source app syncs geometry, lights and cameras between Unity and 3ds Max, Blender, Maya and MotionBuilder.

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

Toolchefs' neat open-source tool transfers curves between DCC apps in a pipeline-friendly way.

Sunday, September 16th, 2018

See how AMD, Intel and Nvidia processors perform with Blender's new hardware benchmarking test.

Monday, August 20th, 2018

SDK of the Material Definition Language supported in V-Ray, Substance Designer and Adobe tools now available as source code.

Friday, August 17th, 2018

Updated: Free tech converts offline renders to 3D geometry for use in mobile VR. Has exporters for Maya, Unity, UE4 - and now 3ds Max.

Wednesday, June 20th, 2018