Blender Conference: Cycles renderer roadmap and Blender viewport improvements announced

This year’s Blender Conference finished on Sunday and brought some interesting announcements regarding Cycles upcoming developments as well as Blender viewport improvements planned for v2.8. Also of note, Ton Roosendaal stated that companies such as Nimble, AMD, Tangent and Lulzbot are supporting full time developers for Blender. Canada-based Tangent Animation discussed publicly how their production system contributes to Blender development. Last but not least, videos from the talks given at the conference are starting to show up on YouTube.