Blender 2.83

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Blender is a free, open-source professional 3D creation software allowing modeling, animation, rendering, texturing, lighting, shading, post-production. It is suitable for architectural modeling, but requires huge knowledge of graphic editing.

Blender is open-source, free to download and use but it is more oriented towards advanced users. User interface is complex so it requires a considerable investment of time. Fortunately, there is a big online community; also user manuals and documentation can help you start with this software.

The portable version is available also.

Features:

• Modeling
  Sculpting, retopology, modeling, curves. Blender’s modeling toolset is extensive.
• Animation
  Designed for animation, Blender is being used for award-winning shorts and feature films.
• Rendering
  Create jaw-dropping renders thanks to Cycles, high-end production path tracer.
• Simulation
  Featuring industry-standards libraries like Bullet and MantaFlow, Blender offers powerful simulation tools.
• Video Editing
  The Video Editor offers a range of basic yet very efficient tools.
• Scripting
  Featuring an extensive Python API, every tool is available for scripting and customization.
• VFX
  From camera and object motion tracking to masking and compositing, you can “fix it in post”.
• Interface
  Because of its custom architecture, Blender’s UI, window layout and shortcuts can be fully customized.
• Pipeline
  Integration with multiple pipeline tools is pivotal in many productions.

For more information please visit https://www.blender.org/features/.

What’s new in version 2.83.5:

Blender 2.83.5 LTS features a total of 25 bug fixes:

• FCurve editor crash when zooming out to limit.
• Crash displaying the same mesh in two windows.
• Fix interface artifacts on Intel GPUs.
• Outliner Make Single User crash.
• Eevee cubemaps shows black.
• Smooth brushes crasing in dyntopo.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit https://www.blender.org/download/lts/#lts-release-2835.

What’s new in version 2.83.4:

Blender 2.83.4 LTS features a total of 19 bug fixes:

• Crash when adjusting sequencer property.
• GPencil: Fix unreported missing strokes in interpolation.
• Crash related to viewing video files.
• Mantaflow Field weights cannot be animated.
• Batch Generate-Previews doesn’t work anymore.
• Dimensions fail on negative scaled axis.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit https://www.blender.org/download/lts/#lts-release-2834.

What’s new in version 2.83.3:

Blender 2.83.1

Blender 2.83.3 LTS features a total of 17 bug fixes:

• Fix alignment/size issue on ARM/RPi architecture.
• EEVEE: Cubemaps shows black.
• Blender Freezes when using the 3d Scale Gizmo.
• GPU: Apple/Nvidia Proxy check.
• Fix missing GPU image free in background mode.
• Overlay: Weight colors are not in render in the right colorspace.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit https://www.blender.org/download/lts/#lts-release-2833.

What’s new in version 2.83.2:

Blender 2.83.2 LTS features a total of 15 bug fixes:

• Random crash when rendering animation.
• Overlay: Outline Selected overlay doesn’t affect armatures.
• Crash when closing window while Outliner shows screens.
• Crash on undo Draw Face Sets stroke with dyntopo active.
• Fix random crash in Cycles smoke volume loading.
• UV Editor: Fix Vertex Overlay color not being color managed.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit https://www.blender.org/download/lts/#lts-release-2832.

What’s new in version 2.83.1:

The first maintenance release of the first long-term support release is out.

Blender 2.83.1 LTS features a total of 33 bug fixes. There are no new features so it is safe to upgrade during production. A new maintenance release is already being worked on and planned for early July, the goal is to update LTS versions as often as possible in a “rolling release” fashion.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit https://www.blender.org/download/lts/#lts-release-2831.

What’s new in version 2.83:

New features include VR support, OpenVDB import, OptiX viewport denoising and a powerful new physics-enabled Cloth Brush.

• Grease Pencil
  Completely rewritten from scratch, the new Grease Pencil is much faster and better integrated with Blender.
• Volumes
  OpenVDB files can now be imported and rendered with the new volume object.
• Virtual Reality
  Initial native virtual reality, focused on scene inspection.
• Cycles
  Adaptive sampling, OptiX viewport denoising, improved shader nodes, and more.
• EEVEE
  New render passes, improved light cache and high-quality hair transparency.
• Sculpt
  Face sets to control visibility, cloth brush, and many more improvements.

For more information and a full list of improvements please visit Blender 2.83 Release Notes and https://www.blender.org/download/releases/2-83/.

Blender 2.83

About Blender Foundation

The Blender Foundation (2002) is an independent public benefit organization with the purpose to provide a complete, free and open source 3D creation pipeline, managed by public projects on blender.org.
Its spin-off corporation Blender Institute (2007) hosts the foundation’s offices and currently employs 15 people who work on the Blender software and creative projects to validate and stress Blender in production environments.

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Blender 2.83

Blender 2.82

Blender 2.81

Blender release 2.81. New features include a completely new sculpting system with new brushes and masking, cycles and EEVEE improvements, UI improvements, Denoise, RTX support, and so much more.
The best new features in Blender 2.81. Including the new AI denoiser, optix and rtx support, open vdb remesher, new sculpting tools, quad remesher, video editing, cycles improvements, eeevee improvements, render improvements, and more!
This is a brief overview meant to get you quickly acquainted with all of the new features.

Blender 2.80

Tiger – Blender 2.80 demo by Daniel Bystedt
Goodnight Claire – Blender 2.80 demo by Daniel Bystedt
Tree Creature – Blender 2.80 demo by Daniel Bystedt
Grease Pencil Sketching – Blender 2.80 demo by Jama Jurabaev
Space Suit – Blender 2.80 demo by Jama Jurabaev
HERO – Blender Grease Pencil Showcase
Blender Screenshot
A Whole New Workspace – Sculpt – blender.org
A Whole New Workspace – Model – blender.org
A Whole New Workspace – Animate – blender.org
A Whole New Workspace – Edit & Grade – blender.org
What You See Is What You Need – Random Colors – blender.org
What You See Is What You Need – Colored Wireframes – blender.org
What You See Is What You Need – Look Dev – blender.org
Intuitive Widgets – blender.org
Toolbars – blender.org
Principled Hair BSDF – blender.org
Cryptomatte – blender.org
Random Walk Subsurface Scattering – blender.org
Subdivision and Displacement – blender.org

Blender 2.83 Materials