News Summary

• Free and open source computer graphics suite off-loading such tasks to programs like Houdini.
• This update might allow some animators to stop paying that license and go fully-open source.
• Even if you’re not into digital sculpting or animating, you may find yourself downloading a copy of Blender at some point to add texture to 3D prints.
• The right addon can even let Blender do parametric CAD, though FreeCAD is getting better all the time, too.