Blender is going beyond mouse and keyboard with a new touch-friendly interface for tablets
Adapting 3D modeling to tablets and mobile
Free adventure game DogWalk is winning hearts on Steam
DogWalk is a free, heartwarming winter adventure by Blender Studio where you play as Chocomel the dog, helping a child build a snowman in a papercraft-inspired forest. Made as a showcase of open-source tools Blender and Godot, the game is cross-platform and already a hit on Steam with very favorable reviews.
Blender 4.5 launches with major performance improvements
Blender 4.5 introduces GPU-accelerated shader compilation, faster simulations, and full Vulkan support. Key updates include expanded Geometry Nodes tools, enhanced GPU compositor performance, improved UV editing, and broader import/export compatibility.
'Flow' movie was made with Blender, open-source just won an Oscar
Even more impressive? The final renders used Blender's semi-realtime Eevee engine. That reduced the compute required by orders of magnitude - the director said a render farm wasn't necessary because his local workstation could produce final-quality 4K frames in 0.5-10 seconds.
Apple's M4 Max beats RTX 4070 in Blender, but falls short of the RTX 4080 Super
Can the rumored M4 Ultra take on the RTX 4090?
Blender 4.3 combines animation, sculpting, and rendering upgrades
Blender introduces an enhanced Grease Pencil toolset, new brush assets, real-time lighting effects, and more. Additional features include improved light and shadow linking to illuminate specific objects and experimental Vulkan backend GPU support.
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K CPU-Z and Blender benchmarks underwhelm, but questions remain
Single-thread scores lag behind Raptor Lake, with full reviews incoming
Blender 4.2 LTS released with a completely new render engine
Blender's next generation EEVEE engine has been completely rewritten, allowing for global illumination, displacement, better SSS, viewport motion blur, and more. Blender 4.2 LTS also includes support for GPU-accelerated compositing.
Ryzen 9 9950X Blender benchmarks show massive performance improvements over the 7950X
AMD's Ryzen 9000 series launches later this month
Blender 4 launches, adds AMD RDNA2 and RDNA3 APU support
Blender 4.0 features new Node tools, AgX for better color handling, a new HDR option as well as light and shadow linking for illuminate specific objects
Blender boosts rendering, extends features for animators
Blender 3.6 is an important update that improves modeling and rendering performance, adds simulations for geometry nodes, and hardware ray tracing.
21 Programs to Analyze and Benchmark Your Hardware
You've just bought a new gaming PC or a laptop for the office. Maybe you just upgraded your PC. You might be into overclocking. But do you know exactly what you've got? How well is that PC actually working? We've compiled a list of 21 programs that are great for analyzing and benchmarking your devices.
Create 3D graphics and animations with Blender, free of charge
Blender lets you create animated movies, visual effects, 3D printed models and even games. It's open source and available for Windows, macOS & Linux.