See the 2021 Blender roadmap
Check out the major features coming up in the open-source 3D software in this year's Blender 2.93 and Blender 3.0 releases.
Friday, April 23rd, 2021
Vulkan
Check out Nvidia's RTXDI and RTXGI GPU ray tracing demos
Download the free Attic demo to try RTX global illumination, and see a video of direct lighting tech RTXDI.
Friday, April 16th, 2021
Sneak peek: Lumberyard's new Atom renderer
Amazon's free game engine to get new 'high-performance physically based renderer' with an interesting modular design.
Friday, April 9th, 2021
Blender Foundation joins Khronos Group
Developer can now influence development of key graphics standards used in Blender like OpenCL, OpenXR.
Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Khronos Group finalises radical new OpenCL 3.0 spec
New spec aims to reboot the GPU compute API for a new generation of CG tools. SDK now available.
Wednesday, September 30th, 2020
AMD releases new beta of Radeon ProRender 2.0
Open-source physically based GPU render engine gets support for Light Path Expressions, MaterialX.
Monday, August 24th, 2020
Crytek posts its 2021 CryEngine roadmap
Check out the features due in the next update to the game engine, now postponed from spring 2020.
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020
AMD unveils Radeon ProRender 2.0
SDK update to the free, hardware-agnostic GPU renderer promises faster rendering on CPU plus GPU.
Monday, May 18th, 2020
AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Unreal Engine
Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs.
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
Otoy ships OctaneRender 2020.1
Major stable release of the GPU renderer adds RTX acceleration, improved SSS and hair shading.
Tuesday, April 28th, 2020
Uppercut unveils its U-Render 2020 product roadmap
Cinema 4D real-time render engine to get support for particle rendering and SSS - and a new Maya edition.
Saturday, April 18th, 2020
Vulkan now does ray tracing
The Vulkan Ray Tracing extensions are now available as stable builds, along with an updated SDK and AMD and Nvidia GPU drivers.
Thursday, March 19th, 2020
Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant
Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.
Tuesday, February 4th, 2020