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Blender

Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Tuesday, February 25th, 2025

VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click, to prepare them for animation or rendering.

Sunday, February 23rd, 2025

Check out the key changes due in the next version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and viewport rendering.

Monday, February 17th, 2025

Check out the changes to tracking plugins FaceTracker and GeoTracker, including new wireframe rendering and start frame selection options.

Friday, February 14th, 2025

Renderer gets better multiscattering in volumes, USD procedural support in Maya, and initial support for GeForce 50 Series GPUs.

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

Updated for version 1.2: Intuitive layer-based texture painting add-on for Blender now supports shader layers and texture baking.

Wednesday, February 12th, 2025

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Check out the new features in the renderer, including native OpenPBR and 3D Gaussian Splatting support, and improvements to V-Ray GPU.

Thursday, January 16th, 2025

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025