How not to love Blender developers? They are so fast and efficient, I was still discovering some features in 3.0

The fact that Blender is a free software, feels so unreal. It's been extremely useful for my projects and it just keep getting better and better. Edit: Hello, people from the first world, thanks a lot to everyone who donates, but to the people being condescending in the replies and the ones to come, just know I'm not making any money off my projects, they just that "projects" if i had the money to donate I would donate a lot, that's why I thankful is free, i come from a place where learning 3d is only a privilege for those who can afford a barely decent computer. So yeah, toned it down.

A small correction, the image size at 1:11 is 12000 x 15000, not 1200 x 1500.

Feels like yesterday we had 2.8, and it is already 3.1. Great job developers!

I love how this update is considered more 'performance improvements', yet has more new features than most software updates do in 3 years!

Thanks to everyone who helped make 3.1! It's not as feature-heavy as 3.0, but lots of great little improvements and some better performance. I'm excited to use the new nodes.

0:00 - Modeling Performance 0:14 - Subdivision GPU Support 0:25 - Metal GPU Support 0:37 - Point Cloud 0:49 - Ray Tracing 1:01 - Asset Browser, Image Editor 1:13 - Geometry Nodes Performance 1:43 - Context Aware Search 1:57 - New Geometry Nodes 2:49 - Action Frame Range 3:09 - Graph Editor & Armature 3:33 - Copy Global Transform 3:48 - Grease Pencil 4:23 - VSE, Compositor 4:43 - Import/Export 4:59 - UDIM, UI

A solid update indeed, big thanks to the Blender Foundation and all contributors!

The fact that most of this update was dedicated to improve performance has made me very happy. But looking at all that geometry node stuff, just WOW!!! It feels like I should learn how to use geometry nodes soon.

mistake at 1:10 the image is 12000x15896px (massive image) but the on-screen text says only 1200x1500px (less than 1080p).

Subdivision Modifier GPU performance?! THAT'S WHAT I NEEDED 💜

Blender has always been a bright spot for the future of technology. I believe more companies will exist on this next level ethical platform because Blender is repeatedly proving the advantage of not being tied down by marketing schedules and monetization schemes. The freedom you have given us and keep overdelivering on is unprecedented in the world of of business today. THANK YOU!

0:50 motion graphics 1:05 Yama 1:22 transparent 1:30 de construction 1:39 skins 2:08 chocolate 2:15 arc 2:27 px histogram 2:41 instances plants 2:55 custom Action frame range anim 3:11 Pose 3:24 graph editor ++++ 3:36 copy 3:52 shrinkwrap 3:57 GP blue technical draw 4:12 negative 4:14 color spaces 4:15 orange layers ++++ 4:22 story boards 4:26 Proxy 4:32 Compositor 4:43 rename ++++ 4:50 surface material 5:01 UDIM 5:05 text fonts

I'm so exited Southern Shotty got to do the narrating of this video, it makes me exited to see the blender community come together.

Wow. Blender just keeps getting better and better!!! Thanks so much everyone!!!

Blender has everything I want from games. Consistent, user-friendly updates that add requested features, constantly improving performance each update instead of bogging the software down with unnecessary bloatware, and tweaking existing tools to be more user-friendly instead of maintaining them in an unwieldy state. Thank you very much for this, it's truly a wonderful tool.

Yay I’m glad the video editor got some recognition

Awesome update! Big thanks to everyone involved! 🥰

Woo hoo! It's here.

I honestly don't know what half of this stuff is but thank you!

The geometry node demonstration at 1:13 shows an amazing house building script with destruction, being all applied via nodes. Is that from some tutorial or something? Is there any documentation on how it was achieved? I'd love to sink my teeth into a project about this

speed of the development is just amazing, too many features with every single update and these updates are quite frequent-

Sometimes these days it feels like "updates" as term of "improvement" has lost its worth, at least for a lot of Softwares/Games. But THIS is what I think is a perfect example of pure improvement. I just love how it feels like christmas, getting nice gifts with every little update. Very well done ^-^ Thank you

Blender....one of the best software packages made by man, for man.

Man, this all looks great. I haven't been using Blender too much for a little while, just due to the nature of my current projects, and the leaps and bounds that have been made are mindblowing.

Genuinely forgot we had this update coming up- Very pleased to see more improvements constantly! I am particularly interested in the new Shrinkwrap modifier for Grease Pencil, it should make it quite easier to draw on meshes now!

I love these summary videos. There's so much crammed into each release these days so these videos are really helpful to get a quick snapshot. Thanks Blender

This is a stunning release. Thank you to everyone who worked in this. You’re amazing!

Another impressive update! Great work Dev team!

Shotty always does amazing job with these videos!!!! Shows really nice scenes

I started learning 3d art recently, all the new features all the time are a little daunting as I don't know very much but I'm thankful for the wonderful free software.

Dope. "Which part?" Yes.

Wow. Absolutely amazing update. Thank you!

Gotta love the dev team. Making way for a whole new generation of artists

i cant keep up with the updates XD every few months i check to see if theres anything new on blender, and low and behold it's on 3.1 damn lol you guys are fast as hell, i love it!

Thanks a lot for all these. You guys really rock.

This makes me so exited, its a joy to see people work with so much dedication on something so widespread.

Amazing!!!! So excited to update!!!

Pretty awesome updates, and nice to see VE getting some love

Blender developers and whole community is amazing!!!Thank you for hardwork!)

Blender is not just a software, it's a gift

Man, what would I do without you guys

This update looks and feels fantastic. Great stuff.

Thanks folks, keep up the magnificent work...

Achievement unlocked: Legendary Development

Blender is incredible and it keeps on getting better! thanks so much to the developers

No words other than amazing. Credit to you Blender dev team!

Yes!!! The context-aware node linking is finally here :D

This 5min video save me 1 hour. Thank you!

I started my journey on blender..even tho I dnt use it anymore for the past 7 years, all I can say is that I randomly watch these new released videos..its insane to see what blender has become in 2022 :)

I think you might've forgotten some zeros @1:10 :D

Woow. So much faster and much better everything is now in Blender! Everyone is working sooo hard at Blender!

Color Space Conversion... Yess!!!! Finally!!!! Love it

Amazing! Actually considering integrating it to my workflow at the studio (Architecture).

literally the thumbnail looks sick by it self!

I switched from MAX and C4d and zbrush and never looked back. Way to go Blender!

I thought I knew a bit about 3D modelling and Blender but wow, most of this video seemed like another language. Amazing innovations and updates for power users. Much to learn here

Love the lighting on your face.

I'm always surprised just how much the Blender team manages to do with each update

thank you very much for creating this application

makes me realise how far i've got to go because I've been using Blender a lot and understood almost none of this. Pretty exciting to know there is so much more to do

Yes, very fast! Finally wait for this version

"Default thumbnail mode when searching for fonts" THANK YOU ❤️

I've been waiting context aware search for a long time. This thing in ue4/5 is very useful

These are some huge improvements and new features! Blender ftw

So many new features! :D

Awesome!!! 👍‍👍‍👍‍

So much information coming from everywhere anymore!!! Cannot keep up:)

Thank you Blender!

1:44 YES FINALLY! I have requested this feature after noticing how annoying it was to use Blender node editor after using any other. (Unity, Unreal and Godot had this) Great job Blender Foundation! you knever cease to amaze me!

amazing stuff, i cant believe that this program is free. its so good, i have to support this project and will ^_^. please more eevee updates too .

blender is the best thing humanity has ever done

Fantastic, much love

We LOVE you, Blender!

You are simply the best.

Whoa! This "what's new" included more stuff than most software has total! With the speed that the Blender improves, there's no way I can ever fully learn it. (That's no different from not being able to watch all new KZfaq videos - things just proceed with such a speed that a single human cannot handle it all.)

Super awesome update.

Blender always Awesome ❤️

my interest: 2:24 accumulate field node - shown to be used for graph 2:49 animation: action frame range - shown to be used for looping (if i get it right) 4:01 grease pencil: something crazy seeming which i dont understand 4:06 grease pencil: offset fill

Thanks for the Metal GPU rendering for Macs! I got nearly 4 times better render times in almost every scene compared to CPU-only rendering!

Color space conversion!! Wooo!

I love you Blender Team❤

Extrude node is perhaps the most exciting feature

Metal GPU! My rendering times thank u in advance

FINALLY! I've been begging so hard for armature opacity!!!!

I'm learning a lot this is great new updates I wanna try grease pencil .

Blender's devs are one of the best in the industry.

Very happy to migrate from 3ds max ♥ go up blender to standard industry

Nice performance improvements.

Metal support, THANK YOU!

How can an open source project be so powerful and efficient? It still blows my mind.

wow - incredible technology

Yup, being a blender supporter feels soooo good

I love you guys

Thanks !!

I'm primarily glad for viewport optimization, in this case being with subdivision. Even though I know I'm a novice & make sub-optimal decisions with my models I would still struggle with such low frame rates while trying to animate on my previous gpu, and even though I've since upgraded quite massively I still somehow couldn't get the consistent 30 fps on a past scene even with shaders turned off. Just felt weird.

when will there be major eevee visual improvements guys ? :") , having something like the LUMEN tech from unreal engine in blender eevee would be game changing

I am a new blender student in my second week looking forward to the new update

they could make some base things work good, like some groups and fast moving in groups and subgroups. Should not be that hard considering what they did in this update. Its awesome ofc.

A lot of features in a free software ♡