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Get started with the professional 3D software with the latest of Eric Keller's popular series of beginners' tutorials for The Gnomon Workshop.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new shaders for non-photorealistic and motion graphics-style effects.

Check out the latest features in the GPU production renderer, including support for meshlet streaming in network renders.

Intuitive free tool also lets you scatter objects on curves, surfaces or volumes, or place them by clicking in the viewport.

Vampawn Entertainment's Medieval Modular Wall Pack is normally sold for $49.99. Blender, UE5, FBX, GLB and OBJ formats. Commercial use.

Read our FAQs on the free online stock asset markeplace from the creator of D5 Render, including its license conditions and stance on AI.

Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.

Sizeable update to the popular reference image organization tool adds grid snapping, batch image processing and more drawing tools.

Master Houdini's powerful fluid simulation toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide for VFX and games artists.

UE5-based renderer shipped with the Silo modeling software now supports real-time ray tracing on Mac and path tracing on Windows.

Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.

Updated: new release candidate for the core glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Helldivers 2 dev becomes Blender's third new corporate sponsor in two weeks, donating €30,000/year towards the open-source 3D app.

Promising GPU-accelerated tool for organizing your visual reference material even lets you drag and drop videos directly from YouTube.

Check out the major features now in development for the open-source 3D software and due for release in Blender 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and beyond.

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.

Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.