Blender News

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: 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!

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.