It's becoming a tradition... 2 weeks after the release a bugfix update get made. Over 100 fixes!
During the past months work has been done on preparing a modernized and brand new website. First beta will go live in a week!
New in this release is the Freestyle render engine for cartoon rendering and a 3D Print toolbox. Painting and Sculpting upgraded, and lots more...
In the past 3 months we've worked on a full re-render of our Open Movie in 4k - exposing the brilliant camera work and vfx in full glory!
Cycles SSS, 3D Print tools, GPU based Image color conversions, and lots more! Help us testing it.
You can now pre-order a video/DVD training to learn Blender modeling and the new 3D Printing Tools in the upcoming release.
Are you a student? Google might sponsor you for a cool coding job on Blender this summer. Submission starts 22 April.
Blender Foundation's partnership & bizz network had its final upgrade. Find your freelancers, studios, trainers, developers there!
Great material for anyone who wants to work with high quality 4k footage for tracking, keying and masking tests!
Thanks to two new subscribers today, the Development Fund now gives us a steady income of 3k euro. Next step: studios sign up for Diamond level!
Just in 10 days we handled 100s of bug reports for 2.66, and over 80 fixes made it in this 2.66a update!
Dynamic Topology sculpt, Cycles Hair render, Rigid Body Dynamics, HiDPI screen support, and especially a lot of attention for usability and fixes.
Ben Simonds - Gecko Animation Ltd. - offers a peek inside his studio, showing the creative process of 3 projects. 10% pre-order discount!
For all paid orders, just login to the store, and you find the download link in the bottom of the DVD product page. Download-only gives discount!
Read this case study how free/open source software works for an animation studio. Film release in May 2013!
With 208 members the Development Fund is doing great, but to support more developers in 2013 we can use your support well!
The Blender Network initiative now has two new enthusiast admins, bringing us much needed activity at the networking site.
The amazing (Creative Commons) FlexRig is a template enabling advanced character animation. Training DVD is now available in our e-store.
Stability first! Thanks to good bug reporting and a lot of developer activity we decided to upgrade the release with an 'a' version. Over 40 fixes!
This release offers plenty of new features, but most of the work was focused on stabilizing - with a massive clean-up of the bug tracker!
3 artists who worked on Tears of Steel and Sintel will be available a full week for personal training. Follow the updates on the official Facebook pag...
The next 2.65 release will happen soon. Help us getting it stable by testing the official binaries!
3 Animators/artists who worked on Sintel and Tears of Steel will be available a full week for personal training.
You can now watch talks or download presentations of the 2012 Blender Conference!
The nominations for the 2012 Suzanne Awards have been selected.