Blender 4.1 New Features Official Overview

Blender 4.1 brings lots of quality of life improvements and massive performance. Follow Jonathan Lampel from @cg_cookie as he goes through everything new in the latest and greatest Blender.

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[blenderguru]

This is a big 'un. Hats off to the devs.

[SharpWind]

Blender devs are my favorite people on the planet.

[dogac_]

DRAG AND DROP IMPORT!?!?! WE ARE EATING WELL TONIGHT!!!

[PeterMoueza]

Personal bookmarks shared :
2:05 lock cam 3:05 Simplify 3:18 Maria cloth artwork 3:37 auto mask 4:00 keyframes 4:10 pie menu 5:05 drivers 5:54 nodes 6:24 circular 6:29 footprints 7:18 shortest path 8:02 compositing 8:27 green 8:45 px 9:52 modif 10:22 Obj

[None]

People saying this like every update, but I want to say it again. As an ex UI/UX designer I was lucky enough to hop into 3d field and find the masterpiece where I wasn't expected to, in a tech software. I genuinely enjoy easy to learn hard to master thing, every time I think that my workflow setup in Blender is 2-3x superior and faster than in other software, I learn some ways to optimize it even more. Long happy live to entire Blender team and Ton himself!

[pseudonim]

The new mark sharp feature with smooth shading is huge. It is much more similar to 3ds max now. HUGE W

[timothycook]

The Camera Lock And I also love all the animation upgrades and QOL changes. :) Keep up the great work!

[MattBixler]

As excited as I am by the live compositor updates the improvements to the VSE knocked me right over. I hadn't heard anybody hyping this up at all, but it addresses so many points of friction I've been having when editing video in Blender. I didn't even know the devs were making it a priority!

[semihozel]

Thank you Blender Developers and the whole blender family.

[Ironpants]

Curves can behave like a curve in edit mode?! Amazing!! LOVE this!

[youtubetrailerpark]

Real quality of life improvements. Blender is so awesome.

[cerebralm]

Hyped for:

-Camera lock button (O. M. G)
-No more autosmooth (back to the old ways, which were better imo)
-Doing non-destructive autosmooth as a modifier, which is also a geonodes asset??? now THAT'S an improvement!
-Bone selection mode in weight paint mode
-Realtime compositing (I REALLY REALLY REALLY hope we eventually get access to these image-processing groups elsewhere, like in sequencer strips or image texture/procedural texture cache nodes in the shader editor.)
-Waveform calculation on by default (always have to go hunting for it, or forget it's there and find audio moments the hard way... this will be so much easier)

[KrazyKaiser]

Wow, I feel like that "split to instances" node is going to help me finish an experiment I was trying to figure out last year!

[skrowd]

Very nice update, and from a company that provides free software for all. You guys truly are doing something great for humanity. THANK YOU!

[DeepakGraphicsHindi]

This is now called industry-valued software! Loved it!!

[nosirve]

Thank you Jonatahn for the video!
Thanks all the devs for the awesome features ! This is great!!!

[matteofalduto]

One of the reasons Blender is so great, especially compared to other open source projects, is that they are really good at staying focused on keeping the app on track with an overall vision instead of just adding sparse new tools and features here and there and then forgetting about them. Everything seems constantly reevaluated to determine how it fits in the bigger picture.

[anomalyraven]

I feel like a kid on Christmas day each time these videos release. So excited!

[tee-hee]

Thank you so much for supporting us Blender it is now for us to support blender back 💜💜💜💜

[Ozblivion]

that automatic audio wave form change is gonna save me some time