The upcoming major release of Blender – version 2.8 – has a lot of buzz surrounding it. And for good reason, too. There’s the brand new Eevee engine, showing a lot of promise. And there is a truckload of new features – new grease pencil, workspaces concept, layers and collections, and many others. On the performance side, there are also significant improvements, and a notable addition is the new hybrid render mode. This allows rendering using both the CPU(s) and…