Odilkhan Yakubov has released an unofficial blender add-on to support Corona. Find out more on the Blender Artists forum. 

CGTinker has released BlendArMocap, a free add-on that can capture hands, faces and poses using just a webcam. Find out more on Gumroad. 

BD3D has released Scatter 5 for Blender. (more...)

Сергей Солуянов has released Blender Nodes, a new add-on for Blender that can help artists to model buildings. Find out more on Blender Market.

Łukasz Czyż has released UVPackmaster 3 for Blender. The add-on promises a fully-featured UV packing engine for Blender that can run on a CPU as well as a CUDA-enabled GPU. Whenever
possible, it will iterate UV packing on the CPU and all GPUs in the system simultaneously, in order to minimize processing time as much as possible. (more...)

Reallusion has announced that it has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Silver partner pledging €12K per year. (more...)

Version 2.6 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds support for OpenColourIO 2 and improves the performance of rendering mesh lights by up to 3 times. Other improvements include updates to Embree and OIDN, the UVRandomMapping2D and LocalRandomMapping3D gain the ability to use step values, plus many more improvements. LucCoreRender 2.5 is open source under the Apache License Version 2.0. Find out more on the LuxCoreRenderer website and read the list of new features in the release notes. 

Sketchfab has announced updates to its Unreal Engine and Blender plugins. (more...)

The Blender Foundation has announced that Blender 3.0 is has been officially released. New features include: (more...)

Bproduction has released Gardener, a new plugin for Blender to create photorealistic bushes, hedges, and shrubs. (more...)