Facebook Joins Blender as Corporate Sponsor
Today Facebook announced they will be joining the Blender Development fund at the corporate patron level, the highest tier.
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Blender 2.91 Beta Great New Features
Blender 2.91 beta is currently underway with a release scheduled a few weeks from now. There are several impressive new features in this release and today we are looking at 4 of them: Cloth Sculpting has been massively improved in Blender 2.91 including new cloth filters enabling you to simulate …
Six Great Game Development YouTube Channels
YouTube is an incredible resource for game developers, but sorting the gems out can be a challenge. Today we are going to highlight 6 excellent game development channels, especially if you are a Godot developer, as well as general game development guides, Blender, GameMaker and more. AskGameDev AskGameDev is a …
Blender 2.90 Released
Just two months after the Blender 2.83 LTS release we have a new version of Blender today, Blender 2.90 has shipped. Blender is an incredibly popular free and open source 3D modeling, texturing and animation application and the Blender 2.90 release makes it even better. Key features of this release …
Unity Joins Blender Developer Fund as A Patron
Unity Technologies have just joined the Blender Development fund at the Patron (highest tier level). With this move they join the likes of AMD, NVIDIA and even rival engine maker Epic Games in supporting the popular 3D open source application. Details of the sponsorship from the Blender Press Release: “Ten …
Blender2Godot Add-On Released
Blender2Godot is an interesting new add-on for Blender that makes integrting Blender and the Godot Game Engine extremely easy. Create levels directly inside Blender, then in a single click build, even run and deploy Godot apps from inside Blender.
MB-Lab 1.7.8 Released
MB-Labs is the open source successor to Manuel Bastioni Labs, which was sadly abandoneed by it’s creator. The team behind MB-Lab have done an excellent job of picking up development of this powerful open source Blender powered character creator. MB-Lab 1.7.8 is available for download with complete release notes right …
Microsoft Joins Blender Development Fund
Microsoft has just joined the Blender Development Fund as a Gold Sponsor, joining the likes of Epic Games, Ubisoft, AMD, and NVIDIA. Microsoft is currently using Blender in some in-house projects and will be supporting the Blender Development Fund to the tune of 30K Euro per year. Details of the deal from the Blender website: Microsoft makes …
Blender Tools For Unreal Engine Released
Epic Games have just released a new set of tools aimed at making the lives of Blender users easier when working with Unreal Engine. The tools consist of two projects, Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify. Both are available on the Epic Games Github page, although you need to link your GitHub to your […]
Sprytile Now Available For Blender 2.8x
Sprytile is a free tile map editor that runs entirely inside Blender, similar in functionality to the recently covered Crocotile 3D. Over the weekend, Sprytile for the most current Blender 2.8x versions was just released. Details from the Sprytile Itch.io page:Sorry for the long long long delay, but finally the official release of Sprytile for […]