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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.

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I love it when Blender is used for science. Earlier this week we reported how Blender was used on the cover of Nature, and today we have an amazing story from MohammadHossein Jamshidi, who uses Blender for his research in cosmology. MohammadHossein writes: The early ideas to use Blender for Cosmology were enlightened in my [...]

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Milad Kambar shares his collection of 'tools for real pipelines' that all solved real problems he ran into himself. Over the past months, I've been building tools that solve problems I kept running into in my own production work:  tedious exports, broken pipelines, and repetitive manual tasks. Every tool below was born from a real [...]

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If you want to change Blender's hotkeys to create your own custom keymap, Follow these 8 steps to avoid bugs, headaches, and tears.

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CBaileyFilm writes: In this fun and exciting tutorial, learn a full blender workflow as you model, texture, light and render a pair of dice.

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Joseph Farah shares how he used Blender to illustrate a new article on supernova 'chirping'. Joseph writes: Hi folks! I have some very exciting news! I was the lead author of a study published in Nature, which is the cover of the March 12 issue! You can see it right now if you go to [...]

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The Blender Foundation needs someone to gather and share stories about their projects across Blender websites, social media and other platforms. Blender is looking for a storyteller. Someone who can share and communicate the ongoing projects, our mission and free/open source values to a variety of audiences through a variety of media. Given the great [...]

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Ryan King Art writes: In this beginner tutorial I will teach you the very basics of how to get started with sculpting in Blender.

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Vegetation V6 is a major step forward for the add-on, introducing 2 new categories and 129 new assets, while keeping the core features that made it popular. V6 addds season switching (spring, summer, autumn, winter/snow), HD PBR textures, and very high-quality assets built for photorealistic rendering. With this update, the library now totals nearly 400 [...]

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Poly Haven is working on a video game with the help of community-created assets. We've been publishing free (CC0) 3D assets for the last 10 years thanks to the support of our community on Patreon, and now we’re trying something brand new. Under the pressure of AI-generated content, and with the motivation to prove the [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Geometry Node Creation Senior CG Artist - London, Full-Time Midweight CG Artist - London, Full-time 3D Simulation Pipeline Engineer (Blender + 3ds Max + Omniverse / Isaac Sim) - Nfinite Hiring Blender Artist – Violet and Marlowe Drone shows - [...]

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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.

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This week, Blender 5.1 was officially released, bringing numerous new nodes and features (especially related to motion graphics), significant performance improvements, quality-of-life tweaks, and of course several bug fixes and refinements.  

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Soft8Soft writes: A fresh update of the most Blender-friendly Web 3D authoring tool is out! Here is what's new: new demo for cloning objects true GPU-based instancing multi-folder view in the App Manager example showing how to embed a web page into the 3D scene tool to visually setup the camera pivot in Blender viewport [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Contributor Agreement Workflow Update Modules & Projects 2026-03-10 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2026-03-10 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2026-03-13 User Interface Meeting 2026-03-13 Projects Updates meeting 2026-03-16 Grease Pencil Module Meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over [...]

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Kenan Proffitt writes: Create an Epic and Realistic Underwater Scene in Blender! In this step-by-step tutorial, you’ll learn the three core elements that make underwater environments feel believable and cinematic.

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3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. If you want to truly understand procedural motion graphics, not just copy effects, this series is for you. We will explore structured techniques in Geometry Nodes (100%, no preset) to build complete animation systems - focusing on clean logic, controlled timing, and professional visual results. This is chapter-1, new chapter (2 - [...]

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Finding quality Blender training in Brazilian Portuguese has always been a challenge. Most comprehensive courses are either in English or Spanish, which leaves a huge community of Portuguese-speaking artists and professionals without a solid starting point in their own language. Allan Brito decided to fix that. I just released a free, complete beginner course for [...]

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A quick tip by Richard Yot showing you how to paint particle size and density to achieve full manual control over Geometry Nodes instancing.

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Kenan Proffitt writes: Learn Blender Object Tracking Fast! In this video, you’ll get a step-by-step walkthrough that teaches you how to track your video footage inside Blender and integrate 3D assets back into your shot. Enjoy!

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