Blender 2.61 is out and introduces quite a few big new features:

It’s quite possibly one of the most important releases of Blender in its entire history. There are several reasons for that. Top reason is, of course, Cycles, the new hardware accelerated rendering engine. Cycles can use both CUDA (preferred for NVidia) and OpenCL (naturally, AMD/ATI), but will work on CPU too.

The reason number two is motion tracking or, for now, camera tracking. With new Movie Clip editor you can load footage, detect features and reconstruction camera motion for compositing 3D objects into this footage.

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Blender 2.61 is out and introduces quite a few big new features: It's quite possibly one of the most important releases of Blender in its entire history. There are several reasons for that. Top reason is, of course, Cycles, the new hardware accelerated rendering engine. Cycles can use both CUDA (preferred for NVidia) and OpenCL (naturally, AMD/ATI), ...