08-05-2019, 07:00 PM
Blender 2.80 Released
After 4 years in development the biggest version of Blender ever has just been released, Blender 2.80! Blender is a comprehensive open source and free 3D graphics application with 2D, 3D, sculpting, texturing, rendering and compositing support. The 2.80 release brings massive new features to Blender including a complete UX redesign, a new real-time PBR viewport renderer EEVEE, 2D drawing and animation support and much more.
A quick list of major new features include:
- Completely redesigned user interface/experience
- Pie Menus
- Collections replacing layers
- Redesigned tabs and toolbars
- Adaptive interface based on resolution
- Grease Pencil brings 2D support to Blender in a huge way
- EEVEE real-time renderer
- Cycles improvements
- Hair shader
- Cryptomatte
- Random Walk Subsurface Scattering
- Subdivision and Displacement
- Multi object editing
- Pixar OpenSubdiv Support
- Improved COLLADA and glTF support
- Much, much, much more
Blender is available for download on all platforms at Blender.org. You can check out more details of Blender 2.80 in the video below.