If you follow the production of Agent 327 at Blender Institute, you might have heard about the massive motion blur rendering speed-up recently introduced in Blender (for more info check out the Blender Cloud blogpost).

This is just one of the many improvements that will be available in the upcoming Blender 2.78b. Preview builds will be announced soon.

Now, to the second part of this article: we love to share news about Blender and the projects around it, but we want to hear from you!

What kind of news do you expect from the Steam portal and what would you like to see happening here? In which language would you like to see it? What do you use Bender for?

Francesco

If you follow the production of Agent 327 at Blender Institute, you might have heard about the massive motion blur rendering speed-up recently introduced in Blender (for more info check out the Blender Cloud blogpost).

This is just one of the many improvements that will be available in the upcoming Blender 2.78b. Preview builds will be announced soon.

Now, to the second part of this article: we love to share news about Blender and the projects around it, but we want to hear from you!

What kind of news do you expect from the Steam portal and what would you like to see happening here? In which language would you like to see it? What do you use Bender for?

Francesco

The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.78a.



Your own 3D software is now better than ever.

Tons of new features, optimizations, speed-ups, fixes, support for new hardware and Alembic file format. The list goes on and on: https://blender.org/features/2-78/

Blender is 100% open source. Free to use for any purpose, forever.

The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.78a.



Your own 3D software is now better than ever.

Tons of new features, optimizations, speed-ups, fixes, support for new hardware and Alembic file format. The list goes on and on: https://blender.org/features/2-78/

Blender is 100% open source. Free to use for any purpose, forever.

The next release of Blender (2.78) is coming very soon! Official test builds for it are now available. Also check the release logs for 2.78 in our wiki.

Some of the most notable features:

• Grease Pencil 2
  
• Alembic I/O
  
• Cycles Renderer (stereo render, support for latest GPUs and more)
  
• Modeling Tools (freehand curve drawing too, new dissolve too and more)
  
• Animation Tools (bendy bones and more)
  
• Blender Preferences sync with Blender Cloud

Go ahead, download the Release Candidate and report any issue or bug you encounter before the final release!

The next release of Blender (2.78) is coming very soon! Official test builds for it are now available. Also check the release logs for 2.78 in our wiki.

Some of the most notable features:

• Grease Pencil 2
  
• Alembic I/O
  
• Cycles Renderer (stereo render, support for latest GPUs and more)
  
• Modeling Tools (freehand curve drawing too, new dissolve too and more)
  
• Animation Tools (bendy bones and more)
  
• Blender Preferences sync with Blender Cloud

Go ahead, download the Release Candidate and report any issue or bug you encounter before the final release!

A few months ago the team at the Blender Institute produced a VR demo of Caminandes: Llamigos, with the support of the Google VR team. The video has been released on YouTube and is available as CC-BY. Today it has been featured on the Samsung VR website! If you have a Gear VR, check it out on the samsungvr website.

A few months ago the team at the Blender Institute produced a VR demo of Caminandes: Llamigos, with the support of the Google VR team. The video has been released on YouTube and is available as CC-BY. Today it has been featured on the Samsung VR website! If you have a Gear VR, check it out on the samsungvr website.

Since last October, the donations we get via Steam Workshop have more than quadruppled. This is thanks to people purchasing TF2 and DOTA2 items.

I don't know how to thank the makers directly for this support, that's why this Blender update posting.

Thanks a lot everyone! We'll spend the donation money on supporting Blender developers and making Blender more awesome for game artists!

Ton Roosendaal
Blender Foundation

Since last October, the donations we get via Steam Workshop have more than quadruppled. This is thanks to people purchasing TF2 and DOTA2 items.

I don't know how to thank the makers directly for this support, that's why this Blender update posting.

Thanks a lot everyone! We'll spend the donation money on supporting Blender developers and making Blender more awesome for game artists!

Ton Roosendaal
Blender Foundation