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...)

CG Cookie has released its biggest ever Blender course called HUMAN. The course covers realistic portrait creation over 28 hours of video lessons. Watch a trailer on YouTube and find out more about the course on CG Cookie.

The Blender team has announced that its next-generation renderer Cycles X now supports AMD GPUs. (more...)

Antoine Bagattini has released a free ivy generator add-on for Blender. Get it from Gumroad. 

Plugin and asset creator Vizpark has launched Vizplants, a new website that sells plant and tree models in Blender and FBX format. Find out more on the Vizplants website.