Blender 2.91

I didn&#x27;t really expect to see very much moving from 2.9 to 2.91, but I just keep on scrolling and there just keep on being more features when I scroll down. And they&#x27;re substantial features, too! The sculpting tools and the holdout option for grease pencil look like they&#x27;re going to be really useful.<p>And the release page is performant and pretty, and it works without Javascript but it still has all these great little diagrams and demo videos for each feature. Like, you can look at this page and even if you knew nothing at all about 3D modeling you&#x27;d still want to go download this thing immediately.

It would be <i>really</i> useful for the 3D printing and CNC Communities if someone on the Blender team could review the NURBS update patch:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.blender.org&#x2F;D6807" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developer.blender.org&#x2F;D6807</a><p>It&#x27;s been waiting for review for about 9 months. :(<p>If this gets reviewed and merged (probably with some hopefully minor fixing), it&#x27;ll put the foundations in place for Blender to start competing with CAD&#x2F;CAM packages.<p>Which would be a really good thing (as a CAD&#x2F;CAM and otherwise Blender user). :)

Blender is an amazing tool that keeps getting better. The killer feature for me is scripting. I’m a huge fan of running Blender in Python batch mode as part of an asset pipeline; being able to dynamically generate assets from a tool like this so easily is really powerful.

As a professional Blenderer, I&#x27;m most excited about Mesh to Volume. Making realistic clouds has never been easier! absolutely love the software and can&#x27;t imagine where i&#x27;d be without it.

I&#x27;ve just started to get back into working with 3D graphics after a 20 year hiatus. It&#x27;s amazing to see the quality and range of toolkits available in Blender.<p>Absolute joy to use.

It&#x27;s good to see all the FUD about Blender slowly disappearing, it wasn&#x27;t that long ago when half the comments on anything about Blender were something along the lines of &quot;you get what you pay for&quot;.

This seems to be becoming a serious tool for professional use, right? Are people switching over from Maya, Rhino and others? Are any movie studios using Blender as their main tool now?<p>I imagine that Blender is becoming more and more of a tool for students who now don&#x27;t have to pay anything to have a good 3D modeling tool.

Lately I came back to Blender after years to design some visuals for Summon The JSON programming decks. It is amazing how easy to use it became over the years. And it does not crash like it used to. I&#x27;m impressed by it. Never thought me, a programmer, will be able to generate real 3D stuff

Blender&#x27;s interface has improved a ton since I previously used it many years ago.

Very cool, my favorite feature seems will be &quot;FROM DRAWING TO 3D&quot;. Btw, any testing for the M1 Apple chips, will it work on M1 MacBook Pro&#x27;s?

Years ago I looked at, and sorta-learned, Blender for use as a tool for designing simple 3D printed objects. It wasn’t the best tool for that, and I switched to Fusion 360, which is awesome. But F360 isn’t actually free for hobbyists; you have to affirmatively renew your trial every year, which makes me nervous. Has Blender become better for this kind of thing?

Neat! I just started learning some Blender this year, and I know just enough to make what I need for the games I&#x27;m developing (abstract puzzle and strategy games), but I want to do a deeper dive down the rabbit hole at some point.

What would people recommend to learn Blender? I like tutorials which you can follow along and explain the <i>why</i> of what you&#x27;re doing (a bit like the Rust book).

Are there any resource of free and opensource human female models ?

I really wish the new Blender versions worked on the Raspberry pi. Alas :-&#x2F;.

this is incredible work. are there for-profit entities or universities driving it? how much would this cost to do at a private sector company?