Blender Development

Blender 4.4 Released: Check Out These Standout Features

Bart ·
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Blender 4.4 introduces significant improvements focused on stability and quality, alongside innovative features that enhance animation workflows and video editing capabilities.

Key Features:

  • Action Slots: Revolutionizes animation by allowing multiple data-blocks to share a single Action, simplifying complex animations.
  • Video Sequencer Enhancements: Improved text editing, support for H.265 codec, and faster performance for various effects and playback.
  • Modeling Updates: New options for selecting by pole count and improved topology influence for cleaner mesh structures.
  • Sculpting: Introduction of the Plane brush type with customizable settings for precise control over sculpting tasks.
  • User Interface: Enhanced window decorations, improved editor snapping, and better feedback for various tools.
  • Compositor: Significant performance improvements and a revamped Glare node for better control and usability.

Relevant Links:

Blender 4.4 features in less than five minutes

Blender 4.4. Showreel

Author Bart
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Community Lead at n8n.
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