See the 2026 Blender development roadmap
Check out the major features now in development for the open-source 3D software and due for release in Blender 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and beyond.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Latest News
BlendShape Monitor for Maya helps fix your messy character rigs
Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
MetaTailor 2.5 is out with new bridge plugins to Unity and UE5
Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
Tutorial: Animating Characters for Feature Films
Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.
Saturday, January 31st, 2026
Open Image Denoise 3 will support temporal denoising
Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
Free Houdini add-on GGro creates crazily beautiful organic forms
Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.
Friday, January 30th, 2026
Get free Maya character rigging toolset mGear 5.2
Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.
Thursday, January 29th, 2026
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2026.1
Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Adobe releases Photoshop 27.3 and Photoshop 27.4 beta
Check out the latest features in the image-editing software, including two new adjustment layer types and updates to the generative AI tools.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Netflix Animation Studios donates €240k/year to Blender dev fund
Animal Logic-incorporating Netflix subsidiary becomes 'first major animation studio to support Blender's continued development'.
Wednesday, January 28th, 2026
Discover 5 (plus 5) key features for CG artists in Godot 4.6
Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
Lazy Composer 2 adds one-click film emulation to Blender
New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.
Tuesday, January 27th, 2026
This $25 PDF lists PBR color values for 600 real-world materials
Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.
Monday, January 26th, 2026