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Cute Summer Pineapple: Artwork Breakdown
In this video Ryan King shows the creation process of how I made this Cute Summer Pineapple Artwork in Blender. You can see more about this work on Blender Artists.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-27
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 July 4, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking to recreate a lamp to be 3D printed Looking for someone to weight paint a model Junior 3D Artist - Vehicle specialist TDA | Unreal 3D Technical Artist, Remote in UK or EU Creative Circle | 3D Artist / [...]
Creating an Opal pendant With Blender and Jewelcraft
Yoji shows how to use the free Jewelcraft add-on in this low-pace, detailed tutorial. Hello everyone! This is my latest tutorial to model a pendant jewel with the Jewelcraft add-on in Blender 4.4. Enjoy
Tidy Monkey: Your Swiss Army Knife for Blender Workflow Optimization (Free)
Ever spent hours cleaning up boolean artifacts, fixing normals and repositioning origins? The free Tidy Monkey add-on brings three essential toolsets to fix common issues especially if your artwork is for a game engine such as Unity, Unreal or Godot. Group Scene Organization Align objects and space them apart equally on any axis Smart mesh [...]
Seattle Blender User Group July meeting: The 48 Hour Film Project
The Seattle BUG meeting this month is moved because of July 4. Details below. Oscar Baechler writes: When: ???? (But kind of July 11 to 13) Where: ???? What: ???? Seattle Blender User Group is doing something different for our July in person meeting! On account of 4th of July Weekend, we won't be meeting [...]
Pro Quest: The Ultimate Productivity Suite for Blender [$]
Introducing Pro Quest, a productivity suite for Blender designed to enhance your workflow. It offers time tracking and an optional gamification system, providing detailed analytics and customizable project management tools. Get tracking with Pro-Quest Ever finish a long session in Blender and wonder where the hours went? Do you need a better way to track [...]
Short video: Portia Labiata (Jumping Spider)
Here's a cool short video of a jumping spider that Thatrius posted on Blender Artists. This is a Portia labiata jumping spider. It is the only spider known to be intelligent enough to have object permanence (it can navigate around large objects like trees without forgetting about its prey on the other side), and can [...]
LIM: Animation Toolkit and Motion Library for Human Generator Characters [$]
Life in Motion is a lightweight, user-friendly add-on that lets you animate Blender characters in seconds that includes nearly 360 ready-to-use animations. Hey Blender community! After 8 months of solo grinding (coding, animating, UI work, and drinking way too much coffee ☕️), I finally finished my first big Blender add-on project. It’s called LIM – [...]
Bits of Blender #74 - Bézier Curves, Part 2
Bit #74 builds on Bit #73, going further into using Blender’s beautiful Bézier curve tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnqi-L5HlB0
Rigging and Animating Colors with Grease Pencil
Yana Zavialova shares her technique for animating Grease Pencil colors. Today I want to share not just my final work, but what I learned in the process. A cool rigging trick that will give extra artistic freedom to your characters! It might have happened to you: you link your rig into a scene - and [...]
Blender for Filmmakers: Unlock Cinematic Secrets with Onur Erdurak
Dive into the journey of Onur Erdurak, known as Blendreams, a Blender artist and filmmaker whose work has captivated audiences and even caught the attention of Warner Brothers. In this interview by Grant Abbitt, Onur shares his creative process, the tools he uses, and his insights on the future of 3D animation, offering valuable advice [...]
Blender To After Effects 2025! | New OCIO Module, Colorspace Workflow
This video by Simon Eberl explains how to import Blender Multilayer EXR into Adobe After Effects 2025 and configure the correct color space settings.
How I Modeled Ellie’s Flashlight from The Last of Us Part II in Blender
In this hour-and-a-half long tutorial, Pixlways shows us step-by-step how to build every part of Ellie’s flashlight from The Last of Us Part II in Blender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYj72iwvvUo
Flexi Building - Create Buildings Fast with a Wide Range of Customization [$]
Flexi Building is a procedural building generator for Blender, built entirely with Geometry Nodes and ready to use from the Asset Browser. Create buildings fast with powerful tools and a wide range of options to personalize your designs.
Short Video: FlyBot 2
Studio Hoekhuis is back with another funny short Blender video, with impressive photorealism!
Blender Scripting Cookbook – Recipes for the Blender Python API [$]
The Blender Scripting Cookbook by Salai Vedha Viradhan is a collection of clear, concise and annotated recipes for the Blender Python API. The goal of each recipe is to give you just the right amount of information to solve a problem quickly. Learn how to use the API to build addons, manipulate geometry, create custom [...]
Creating Traditional Indian Earrings in Blender
India has some of the most amazing jewelry manufacturing and jewelry design traditions. By example the Jhumkas earrings hold significant cultural and spiritual meaning. Learn how to create them in Blender with this tutorial by Drvquiron, a Blender artist from Mexico.
A Scene Made of 100% Suzanne
From the Weird Department: Cody Gindy decided to create a scene using only Suzanne as the base primitive. While a little unsettling, it works well!
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-26
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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