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Blender 4.0.2 Released

Mario Hawat — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:35:25 +0000

The massive Blender 4.0 release has been out for 3 short weeks, and the Blender developers have already graced us with two corrective releases, this latest one bringing the total number of bug fixes since the initial release to 52! This is a corrective release. It is highly recommended to upgrade as it only contains [...]

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Did Blender Just Change Animation Forever?

Bart — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:45:52 +0000

Smeaf takes a look at what the Blender Animation 2025 project has brought us so far: what's available in Blender 4.0, what's still on the drawing board, and how will it affect your animation projects? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0zQvAuhDIVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Did Blender Just Change Animation Forever? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca0zQvAuhDI)

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Blender 4.0 Released: Check Out The New Features Of Blender's New Era

Mario Hawat — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:27:14 +0000

Welcome to the awesome age of 4.x! After cooking for two development cycles (close to 6 months) Blender 4.0 has just been released, ushering with it a new age of Blender greatness. As the numerical milestone might indicate, this release is one for the history books: it is jam packed with the traditional Blender greatness [...]

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Geometry Nodes Workshop November 2023

Bart — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 16:55:58 +0000

One week after this year’s Blender Conference, the geometry nodes team came together in Amsterdam to discuss many design topics that affect the future of geometry nodes. Let me pick some of the highlights - you can read the full list in the report by Jaqcues Lucke. Handling volumetric data in geometry nodes. Using Gizmos [...]

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Discover Blender 4.0's New 'Base Point' Feature

Bart — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 11:18:57 +0000

Try out this new, super easy to use tool and see how it affects the way you work in Blender. The new Base Point feature lets you pick a specific snapping point on your model with just 1 keypress and a mouseclick - you can pick a vertex, or any place along an edge. Moving [...]

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Blender 4.0 Enters Beta and Gets a New Font

Mario Hawat — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:35:25 +0000

The wait for one of Blender's biggest releases in years is almost over: Blender 4.0 has just entered Beta, which means Blender 4.1 is now in alpha! Beta status means most of the new features Blender will have at release have already landed; what remains is a copious amount of bug fixing and stabilization for [...]

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Filmic's Successor: New AGX View Transform in Blender 4.0

Mario Hawat — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 07:35:32 +0000

The news from Blender's upcoming 4.0 milestone keep coming, cementing how the massive improvements this release will bring. The latest addition is the successor to the venerable Filmic view transform, AgX! Blender 4.0 will have vastly improved handling of saturated highlights, as "Filmic" is being replaced by "Agx" as the default View Transform. Sounds minor [...]

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Kuwahara Real-time Paint Filter in Blender 4.0

Mario Hawat — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:35:50 +0000

Blender 4.0 is in heavy development, with only a few short months separating us from its release. A lot of massive new features have already made it in, including this one: Blender's real-time compositor just got a great implementation of the Kuwahara Classic and Anisotropic filters, which are very well known for their "painterly" effect [...]

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Blender 3.6.2 LTS and Blender 3.3.10 LTS released

Mario Hawat — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:35:15 +0000

The Blender Developers have once again graced us with two simultaneous Blender LTS releases: Blender 3.6.2 LTS and Blender 3.3.10 LTS! Blender 3.3 LTS will be supported officially until September 2024, while the second and last LTS version of the 3.x series, 3.6 LTS, will be supported officially for two more years. ? Blender LTS [...]

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The Blender Foundation Annual Report 2022 is Out

Mario Hawat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 07:35:15 +0000

The Blender Foundation Annual Report for 2022 is now available for download. The 102-page-long PDF more than tripled the size of its 2021 predecessor, highlighting the technical and human work that was put into Blender over the last year. It showcases the work that has gone into Blender in 2022, the people behind it, notable [...]

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