V-Ray for Blender becomes official Chaos Group plugin
Free scene exporter gets Chaos Group product page and forum as original developer joins company.
Friday, February 21st, 2014
open source
Get Godot: like Unity, but open source
Mobile and PC developer Okam Studio releases its multi-platform in-house engine via a MIT licence.
Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Blender Institute to oversee full-length animated movie
Updated: global network of studios taking part includes Oscar-winning production house Autour de Minuit.
Thursday, January 30th, 2014
Solid Iris Technologies releases Thea Render 1.3
Updated: GPU render engine gets speed boosts, instancing and SSS; also physical sky and Z-clipping.
Wednesday, December 18th, 2013
Eye candy: Caminandes: Gran Dillama
A hapless llama has a fur-raising time in the Blender Institute's latest, Chuck Jones-inspired, open movie.
Friday, November 22nd, 2013
Southpaw updates Tactic asset-management system
Open-source tool gets better database and version-control integration. Source code on GitHub.
Tuesday, November 5th, 2013
Get Miguel Angel Santiago's free noise library for Mari
DT3D Mari Procedural Library adds nine new procedural types to the app, with scope to author new ones.
Monday, October 28th, 2013
Pixar's USD system: the new super-Alembic?
Universal Scene Description could help exchange entire production scenes between VFX pipeline tools.
Tuesday, October 15th, 2013
The Peachy Printer: a DIY 3D printer for under CAD $100
Back the Kickstarter campaign and get a kit of parts to build your own photolithographic printer for $100.
Wednesday, September 25th, 2013
Blender's Cycles renderer released via Apache licence
Switch from GPL licence designed to attract big studios and software houses to contribute to development.
Monday, August 19th, 2013
Krita 2.7 released
Open-source paint app continues to evolve in CG-friendly directions with new Offset tool for tileable textures.
Wednesday, August 7th, 2013
Pixar to release OpenSubdiv 2.0 at Siggraph 2013
Change of licence type makes Pixar's in-house subdivision surface modeling tech compatible with Blender.
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Mark Jackson ships Red9 Studio Pack 1.33 for Maya
Crytek TD's free rigging toolset gets new UIs for simplifying mocap data, adding smart noise to animation.
Monday, July 1st, 2013