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Chaos V-Ray, a popular 3D renderer for applications such as 3DS Max, Maya, Cinema4D and more has recently added Blender to the list of supported applications. Even better, they just launched V-Ray for Blender Community Edition, which is a free but somewhat restricted version of V-Ray that can even be
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There is a new free addon for Blender released by @FR3NKD that enables you to quickly and automatically maximize the 3D viewport in Blender. Details from the announcement tweet: Installing the addon is trivial. SImply download Smart Maximizer from Gumroad, it will download as a single .py file. In Blender
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There are two new Humble Bundles of interest to game developers, the Ultimate Game Development Courses Humble Bundle and the JRO 3D Artist Tools Humble Bundle. These two bundles join the already running Learn Godot in 2026 by Zenva Bundle. The Ultimate Game Development Courses Bundle consists of the following
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Blender recently released the Beta of Blender 5.1 currently scheduled for full release on March 11, 2026. The release has several new features and today we highlight some of the best new features (at least in my own opinion). In addition to the new features highlighted below, Blender 5.1 also
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Netflix have just joined the Blender development fund as a corporate patron, specifically Netflix’s animation department – Netflix Animation Studios. The corporate patron tier is the highest level of financial support and represents a commitment of at least €240K a year. Details of the announcement from the Blender blog: Blender
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The Folded Paper Engine is a very interesting project, similar to UPBGE in that it allows you author games almost entirely in Blender. The major difference here, your game is exported as a specially marked up GLTF file and is then finished and compiled using the open source Godot game
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Late last week the Blender Foundation released Blender 5.0 Beta. There are a ton of new features in this version that is schedule to be fully released on November the 5th. In the video below we take a look at some of the highlight features of Blender 5 that are
The Blender Foundation recently released their annual report outlining financial details and development priorities for Blender. Among the other details, they released the following statement about their current financial situation: To increase the donations from the Blender community, a special campaign has been held on blender.org at the end of
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The Blender Foundation, which handles the financing of the open-source Blender application’s development, just had an amazing summer. Several new companies have sponsored the company, two at the highest Patron level, while also adding a gold level sponsor. This is a chart showing the financial commitment for each corporate backer
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With mobile devices, especially tablets, getting more and more powerful by the day, people have been crying out for a version of the free and open-source Blender application that works on tablets. Thankfully those requests are finally being granted, as Blender have officially launched a project to bring Blender to
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