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...)

Ubisoft has announced an update to Mixer, its open-source Blender add-on designed to facilitate real-time collaboration. It allows multiple Blender users to work on the same scene at the same time. The add-on uses a broadcasting server that is independent of Blender which makes it possible to implement a connection for other 3D editing software. The latest update adds support for synchronising armatures, geometry node trees, and the ability to ignore scene camera. Find out more and download the project from Github and watch videos on YouTube. 

Evermotion has published a video comparing the speed of Cycles X to the current version using some of its archviz scenes. See how it performs on YouTube. 

Motiva has announced Layama 1.5, the latest version of its tool Unreal, 3ds Max and Blender tool for creating 360-degree tours in just a few clicks. The most significant new feature of this release is the ability to add hotspots that can be linked to websites, linked to files,  or embed websites, videos and more. (more...)

Version 2.5 of LuxCoreRenderer has been released. The new version adds OptiX/RTX acceleration, non-uniform camera bokeh, new AOVs, randomised texture tiling and rotation, translation and scale. (more...)

F12 has announced a new version of The Grove. its parametric tree modelling add-on for Blender. Features of version 10 include: (more...)

Clemens Beute has released a free Flow Map painting add-on for Blender that supports the paint modes in both the 2D Image Editor and the 3D Viewport. Find out more on Gumroad. 

The Blender Foundation recently wrote a blog post outlining the major targets it plans to tackle in 2021. (more...)