The free and open source 3D creation tool Blender this week began testing Metal GPU rendering for its Cycles renderer on M1 Macs running macOS Monterey. Blender said Metal support for Macs with Intel ...

Students can now access OTOY's OctaneRender 3D rendering software, including OctaneRender plugins for Blender and Autodesk's 3ds MAX (and, shortly, Maya), for free. The cloud graphics company is ...

The popular open-source 3D software Blender has just been updated to version 3.1, and the update brings important improvements – especially for Mac users. Blender 3.1 now has Metal GPU rendering for ...

Stability AI, the developer of the image generation AI `` Stable Diffusion '', has released the AI-equipped extension `` Stability For Blender '' that runs on the 3DCG software `` Blender ''. With ...

Get the latest GPU rendering benchmark results in our more up-to-date Blender 3.6 performance article. Last month, the Blender Foundation marked the end of the 2.X era with its 2.93 release. Next up ...

Blender, an open source integrated 3DCG production tool, released version 4.4 stable on March 18, 2025. It includes revamped animation management with action slots, expanded functionality for geometry ...

Whether you are looking for the right software to fuel your latest design project or picking the best engineering program for a company or class, here’s the best 3D modeling software — and what makes ...

Desktop users have always cared about software optimization, and as soon as many-core CPUs began to hit the market, it became immediately clear that not all software is developed alike. In the classic ...