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Add-ons
Scatter for Blender 2.8
BD3D has released Scatter, a new add-on for Blender for parametrically distributing instanced geometry . (more...)
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Wed, Jan 15
Blender News
Add-ons
FaceBuilder for Blender open beta
KeenTools has announced that an open beta of FaceBuilder is now available for Blender. (more...)
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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.
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Wed Dec 18, 2019
Blender
Blender 2.81 released
The Blender Foundation has announced the release of version 2.81. (more...)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tue Oct 22, 2019
Blender
Adidas joins the Blender Development Fund
Adidas is the latest company to join the Blender Development fund according to a recent tweet by the Blender Foundation. Adidas joins as a silver sponsor alongside companies like Google, Ubuntu, Intel, Steam and more. You might wonder what a sports apparel wants with Blender, but apparently, they used it in the past for visualisations.
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Wed Oct 16, 2019
Blender
Blender’s Eevee and Megascans
Quixel's Adnan Chaumette has released a live stream recording that breaks down Blender's render engine Eevee, and offers tips and tricks to help get the most out of Eevee's features and Megascans assets. Watch it on YouTube
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Tue Oct 15, 2019
