Just 24 hours ago there was a new version of this 3D modeling software (among other things), and the first of the new features mentioned in its release note is striking. A play on words has been used to say "here we have it" or "here we go", but "here" has been written as "hair", which is hair. And it is that Blender 3.3 has introduced a new tool that could well be labeled "hairdressing".
Blender 3.3 has a sculpture mode and supports more geometry nodes. You only have to see the image at the top of this article to see how impressive the results are. If we don't look too closely at the left eye (on the right), which looks like it's still being edited, the hair looks very realistic, especially on the right eyebrow (on the left), where the Bokeh effect is practically non-existent and see everything very clearly.
Blender 3.3 will be supported for a longer time
Blender 3.3 is a LTS version, which means that it will be supported for a longer time and will receive many more patches to fix bugs. Among the novelties that it has brought us, we have:
- New tools to treat the hair, among which there is one to sculpt it.
- UV Unwrap and Pack UV Island nodes that open up the ability to procedurally create and adjust UV maps using Geometry Nodes.
- New geometry nodes, such as:
- One that finds the best path between edges from each vertex to a group of terminating vertices.
- Node that generates a separate curve for each boundary edge that comes from a starting vertex group.
- Node that generates a selection of edges that includes every edge that is part of an edge's path.
- Several more nodes, like the Volume Cube Primitive, Points Primitive, or Mesh to Volume.
- Novelties in the brushes, such as the Ping Pong mode.
- Support for rendering with the latest GPUs that have added oneAPI from Intel.
- Improvements in support for the Vega generation of AMD GPUs.
- Other improvements, available in the release note.
Blender 3.3, which arrives three months after the v3.2, It is now available from their website for all supported systems. From there, we Linux users will download your tarball. In the next few hours the new packages will appear in most distributions.