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Fix Broken Assets in Blender 5
Blender 5 has changed the way assets are loaded into your scenes from the Asset Browser. By default you are going to find that everything is locked and greyed out, meaning you have no ability to change any settings and any rigs will break. These is a simple fix shown in this short video.
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Blender Lab - A Playground for New Ideas
As the demands on the reliability and stability of Blender keep increasing, the Blender Foundation found they needed a space that allows for forward thinking experimentation. The new Blender Lab provides an environment for these kinds of projects. Francesco writes: Over the years, Blender has grown and matured into a powerful and complex piece of [...]
The VFX of League of Legends Worlds 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Calvin Serrano got to VFX supervise and produce the 3D animations for this years League of Legends Worlds 2025 Tournament. Take a look behind the scenes of these ambitious hype teasers they make with way too little time! The main challenge this time was the huge amount of shots we needed to add CG set [...]
"The Heretic", a Short Film Made in Blender
Belzunze the teaser trailer of his movie project 'The Heretic'. This is a teaser (a concept video) showing what the complete project will look like. I think it will take me two years, but here I’m showing the basic design and what it looks like graphically.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-48
Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.
Blender Jobs for November 28, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Interactive 3D medical characters, Unity or Unreal [3D Studio work, no individual] Furniture Modeling and Configuration For more jobs, look here.
You Asked, I Built It: 17 New Features for Roads & Streets in Blender [$]
What a year it’s been! The Roads Must Roll has grown into the most complete toolkit for designing streets, bridges, and intersections in Blender. And with all the new updates — from water and damage effects to vehicles, animations, and performance tools — it’s time to take a look at everything that’s been added. More [...]
New Object Modifiers in Blender 5.0
Ryan King Art writes: In this video I will cover all of the new object modifiers in Blender 5.0.
BlenderKit release notes 3.18.0 [$]
The BlenderKit add-on 3.18.0 is a major step forward, introducing the ability to search, download, and install other add-ons directly from BlenderKit — all inside Blender. Alongside this key feature, we’ve added a host of improvements, boosted multi-window performance, and polished the overall experience. We’ve also resolved the darker thumbnail issue in Blender 5.0, added [...]
Realistic Pokemon animated in Blender
Jamie writes: The second episode of Pokemon Planet is out. All sculpted and animated in Blender with compositing in Davinci Resolve. This episode features the ghost and fairy Pokemon Mimikyu, along with some other creepy friends.
Blender Jobs for November 21, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Bid request for rigging - $100 USD My 2D sketches to clean No AI manifold models Looking for 3D Character Animator for NSFW project [PAID] Looking for artist to create a short animation for upcoming montage video For more jobs, [...]
FUZZ! - Add Hair to Your 3D Characters! - Beginner Tutorial - Assets Included
Are you struggling to add realistic fuzz, fur or hair to your models in Blender? Well, Harry has got a free class for you! In this class, we'll learn how to add realistic fuzz to an adorable fox model so it looks like a needle felted character! The file we’ll use in class comes fully [...]
Creating the Emperor’s Throne Room
Ryan King Art writes: In this timelapse video I create the Emperor’s Throne Room from Star Wars in Blender.
Post-Processing for Photorealism in Blender
Add some photographic flair to your renders with this free training by Richard Yot. If the aim of photorealism is to create an image that looks *photographic*, then that pursuit necessarily goes beyond the basics of modelling, texturing, and lighting. Because photographs are defined by their *imperfections* as much as anything else. Lenses are physical [...]
The Making of 'Au Revoir'
1k0 writes: A beloved family member recently passed away. She loved to wear red. On this artwork, compared to my past projects, I decided to stay away from a long production time, here I only took around two weeks to focus on the feeling and not so much on the technical side. I opened the [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-46
Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.
Alternative to Adobe Premiere? (Intro to Blender 5.0 Sequencer)
Martin Klekner writes: I decided to test whether Blender 5.0’s new Video Sequencer could finally stand as a true Premiere alternative in 2025. In this video, I explore its faster performance, new layout, simultaneous 3D and video editing, and the powerful Strip Compositor with presets like film grain and vignette. Blender’s free, open-source editing tools [...]
Blender Jobs for November 14, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D scan to 3D print workflow and model help 3D Medical Visualization Artist Graduate/Junior 3D Artist For more jobs, look here.
How to Rig Any Static Object For Animation
Kenan Proffitt writes: Learn how to rig a Luxo lamp in Blender with this beginner-friendly tutorial! You’ll master the basics of IK rigging, constraints, and rig controls while following along using my free downloadable lamp model. After this tutorial you will be able to bring any inanimate object to life through animation.
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