The Blender Foundation has published a roadmap that outlines the direction for development over the next 2 years. Read it on Blender.org.

The Blender Foundation has announced that Apple has joined its Blender Development Fund as a Patron member, joining the ranks of Epic, AMD, NVIDIA, Facebook, Unity, and AWS as the highest contributing donors. (more...)

Helb4 has released Knotus, an add on for Blender that makes it easy to create strings and knots. (more...)

Having been delayed earlier this year, Blender Development Coordinator Dalai Felinto has announced that the stable release of Blender 3.0 is now scheduled for early December. You can see the major landmarks on the run-up to release on the developer website. 

AMD has announced a USD plugin for Blender. Features include: (more...)

The Blender Foundation has announced that Adobe has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Member which contributes to core Blender development. (more...)

Blender Guru has published a video comparing the main render engines including Cycles, V-Ray, Redshift, Luxcore, Arnold, Corona, Octane, E-Cycles and Cycles X. (more...)

Alexey Yakovlev has created what he describes as a post-USSR style building generator on Blender's geometry nodes system. More on Gumroad. 

Graswald has announced G Scatter a new free scattering add-on that builds on top of the new Geometry Nodes of Blender 2.93 and above. Find out more on the Graswald website.

The Blender Foundation has announced the release of Blender 2.93 LTS, the latest version in its Long Term Support initiative. (more...)