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Blender

E-Cycles and E-Cycles RTX announced

Mathieu Menuet has announced the latest version of E-Cycles and E-Cycles RTX, his accelerated version of Blender's rendering engine. (more...)

Comments (12) | Posted Thu Jan 23, 2020

Industry News

CG Salary Survey 2020

3D artist Camille Lymer and Fabio Palvelli have launched the 2020 salary survey for artists working in the 3D industry. Last year's survey attracted over 500 responses in dozens of countries, their aim this year is to reach 1000 entries. The survey is anonymous and this year the results will include a small UI to help filter and understand the data. To see the 2020 survey visit this form on Google Docs

| Posted Fri Jan 17, 2020

Add-ons

Scatter for Blender 2.8

BD3D has released Scatter, a new add-on for Blender for parametrically distributing instanced geometry . (more...)

Comments (3) | Posted Wed Jan 15, 2020

Add-ons

FaceBuilder for Blender open beta

KeenTools has announced that an open beta of FaceBuilder is now available for Blender. (more...)

| Posted Fri Dec 20, 2019

Training

Martínez Lara’s Pepe-School-Land updates courses

Barcelona-based Pepe-School-Land, the institution headed by talented artist and Goya award winner Daniel Martínez Lara (Alike, Changes, etc.) is offering two courses, one dedicated to Modeling, Animation and Narrative, and one dedicated to creating your portfolio/demo reel. Both are taught in Spanish. Registration is open for the first course (only 13 spaces left). More on Pepe-School-Land's website.

| Posted Wed Dec 18, 2019

Blender

Blender 2.81 released

The Blender Foundation has announced the release of version 2.81. (more...)

Comments (22) | Posted Fri Nov 22, 2019

Spotlight

Blender Conference 2019 videos

The Blender Foundation has made the videos from its 2019 conference available online. Watch them on this YouTube playlist.

| Posted Mon Nov 11, 2019

Blender

Using Cryptomattes in Blender 2.8

Flipped Normals has released a tutorial explaining how Cryptomattes can speed up your work when compositing and lighting with Blender projects. Watch it on YouTube.

Comments (1) | Posted Tue Oct 29, 2019

Blender

AMD and Embark Studios join the Blender Development Fund

AMD has joined the Blender development fund at Patron level, joining the ranks of Epic and NVIDIA. This news means that AMD will be contributing a further $120,000 a year, enough for two full-time developers. According to a post on Blender Nation, the money is earmarked for " supporting AMD's own technologies and paying for general development" as well as "migrating the software to the cross-platform Vulkan graphics AP". Also announced was $30,000 per year funding from Swedish game developers Embark Studios who will also be releasing some of their in-house tools for Blender. Find out more about the development fund here.

| Posted Thu Oct 24, 2019

Add-ons

The Grove release 8

F12 has released a new version of The Grove, its parametric tree modelling tool for Blender. New features include the ability to animate tree growth, improved tools to allow growth to react to forces, improved materials, a better UX, and many simulation improvements to increase realism and allow for fine-tuning. To see what's new in detail, visit The Grove website.

Comments (1) | Posted Tue Oct 22, 2019