Selecting GPU or CPU rendering in Blender 2.8:If you have a supported GPU, change this in the Render panel under the Device section. If no GPU is detected the this field will grey out.GPU renders a lot faster than CPU. Blender 2.8 supports most Nvidia cards because it was built to run with CUDA cores. The latest Nvidia RTX cards are also supported however at this time the benefits of RTX for quicker raytracing render speed is not supported. I believe this is currently in development to be implemented in future Blender updates, possibly in 2.9 or later.For the artist using newer iMacs, the AMD Radeon card is not supported. From what I [...]

Did you know Blender 2.8 has a free material add-on? Follow the step by step instructions to get some great looking materials. All the nodes are set up for you or just edit it however you want. No additional downloads required and it’s all free.

1. In Blender Go to Edit > Preferences

2. Within the Add-ons Search Bar, type in Material. The Material: Material Library will pop up. Select the checkbox to activate it.

3. Select and object and on the right tab select the Material Tab and click on the New button to create a new [...]

Quickly remove the environment image from your Cycles render.

1.. Change your Render Engine to Cycles from the Render tab.

2. Click on the Film tab. This will review additional parameters below.

3. Select Transparency, the background will become transparent in the viewport.(When press F12 to render the background will remain as an alpha).\

Version: Blender 2.8 Beta (March 2019)Type of application: 3D SoftwareRelated Sections: General / Rendering

Blender is an open source software for 3D creation. It offers modeling, texturing, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and video editing used for [...]