All articles tagged with #blender
Visual effects supervisor Edward J. Douglas explains that Backrooms blended large-scale practical sets with CGI, guided by Kane Parsons’ Blender-driven previs, to realize its disorienting liminal spaces—from the Vertigo Room to wall clipping—pairing tangible on-set builds with digital work to achieve a tactile, believable horror aesthetic.
Anthropic is expanding Claude AI to support full animation production pipelines, integrating with Blender, Autodesk Fusion, SketchUp, and Adobe Creative Cloud to assist from ideation through production planning. Claude can generate scripts, plugins, and procedural tools, explain features in these programs, and help batch-process assets across scenes, while Blender Development Fund involvement and design-school partnerships deepen adoption in professional workflows.
Anthropic unveils Claude creative connectors that let Claude access and act inside popular creative software—Adobe Creative Cloud apps (Photoshop, Premiere, Express), Ableton, and Blender—via natural-language commands, enabling data retrieval and actions within connected tools. The Blender Foundation gains corporate patronage from Anthropic, pledging at least €240,000 per year to keep Blender open source, while Claude is pitched as a speed- and ideation-boost for creatives that handles repetitive tasks without replacing human taste or imagination.
VirtuCamera 2 launches with a redesigned iOS app, a new Android version, and expanded 3D software plug-ins, now supporting Blender, Maya/3ds Max, Houdini, and Cinema 4D, plus a PyVirtuCamera Python API; future updates may add joystick control, custom scripts, and slider presets, with Unreal/Unity support possible depending on demand.
A benchmark comparison of Blender's CPU rendering performance from version 3.0 to 5.0 on a high-end AMD Ryzen Threadripper system shows largely flat performance with minor fluctuations, indicating limited evolution in CPU rendering speed over the past four years.
Shuimeng has released an updated free Blender add-on called Outliner Model Preview, compatible with Blender 4.2 and above, which allows users to quickly preview 3D models in the Outliner with a simple hover, enhancing workflow efficiency.
Blender is developing a full-fledged mobile version, initially targeting iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, with features like icon support and shortcuts, and plans for a demo at SIGGRAPH 2025. The project invites experienced developers to contribute, aiming for cross-platform support and enhanced touch functionalities.
This article suggests 15 gift ideas for your partner, with one of the options being a blender that is aesthetically pleasing, easy to clean, and outperforms popular brands like Vitamix and Ninja. Priced at $140.25, it comes with various accessories and has a blending capacity of 750mL.
This article suggests a blender as a gift for homebodies, highlighting its aesthetic appeal, functionality, and ease of use. The blender comes with various accessories, has a blending capacity of 750mL, and is made from BPA-free Tritan. Priced at $140.25, it is available in three colors.
A 14-year-old kid named Mutanga created a LEGO recreation of the Across The Spider-Verse trailer that caught the attention of the film's directors, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Mutanga taught himself animation techniques by watching YouTube videos and using 3-D software Blender. Lord and Miller were impressed by Mutanga's work and praised his talent, saying that a hero can come from anywhere.
Blender and openEMS have teamed up to create visually pleasing electromagnetic simulations that are easy to understand. The simulations were created using openEMS to run electromagnetic simulations of simple circuits via KiCAD, and then exported to Blender using Paraview software and a custom Python script. The result is a more intuitive way to understand the behavior of electronic circuits and electromagnetic waves.