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Reha Yağcıoğlu successfully compiled Blender 5.3 Alpha natively on the NVIDIA DGX Spark with DLSS Denoiser enabled, specifically optimized for the Grace Blackwell architecture. To document the entire build process and performance results, I created a dedicated English tutorial video (and launched a new channel for technical ARM/Linux builds): Highlights: Step-by-step guide for native DGX […]

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Blendkit celebrates reaching their new milestone with a 20% discount. We are extremely proud to announce that we have reached 150,000 assets on Blendkit! This achievement was made possible by our wonderful 2,485 creators, who pour their hearts, souls, and countless hours of work into their models, materials, brushes, scenes, HDRIs, node groups, printables, and add-ons. We would […]

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This add-on for Blender automatically breaks down large models into separate parts for 3D printing – complete with connections between them. Hanru Croucamp writes: Bed Fit Splitter is a new Blender add-on for 3D printing. You enter your printer’s bed size (or pick a preset) and it plans the cuts automatically: it splits the model […]

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Learn face rigging with Kenan Proffitt. In this Blender tutorial, I’ll show you how to create an expressive face rig in Blender using a simple, beginner-friendly setup. I’ll walk through the tips and tricks I use to get a character ready for facial animation without building an overly complicated rig.

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King  shows you how to create this Cute Garden Gnome character sculpt.

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In this video, Mumu Mundo explores the highly anticipated new feature in development for Blender Grease Pencil: Shape Keys. Testing an experimental build with a 2D Peppa Pig character rig, this walkthrough demonstrates how Grease Pencil strokes and Bézier curves interact with shape keys to create flexible 2D facial expressions (smiles, frowns, mouth phonemes) and […]

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Three astronauts uncover a mysterious symbol hidden beneath the lunar surface during a routine mission. What begins as a simple exploration quickly spirals into a cosmic mystery that could change everything.

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Chris continues his X-Wing tutorial series. In this video I’ll teach you how to add color and detail to the surface of our x-wing. We’ll use the x-wing model we made in last week’s tutorial and cover how to use procedural textures and cool shading tricks to create a realistic surface without having to uv […]

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Let’s practice quick prototyping and boolean modeling and create a cyberpunk inspired sword in Blender with Polygon Runway.

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Generalists and Specialists to Create Original Work For more jobs, look here.

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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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Yeho Studios shows how to set up landscapes in Blender. Have you ever found trouble creating nature art in Blender? Or are you struggling to create a realistic nature scene as a beginner? I understand you because I have been there before. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to create this […]

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Rigging Ormie is a two-part deep dive into how Level Pixel Level rigged this character for Blender. Ormie was originally built in a Maya-base pipeline. In these videos, I review the techniques and workflows I used to recreate this rig in Blender. Part 1 focuses on the body rig: Part 2 focuses on the face […]

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A new Blender 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.8 course connects stylized hard-surface modelling, baked masks and Blueprint controls in one playable project. Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. A sci-fi turret is one of those assets that can look completely finished in Blender and still be nowhere near ready for a game. The model […]

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Wixie Man shares the full version of his Sci-fi short. A few months ago, I posted an article on Blendernation about a science fiction short film made with the help of Blender. The film has wrapped up its festival run and is now available on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to […]

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Light It Up is a free and open source lighting add-on. It’s on the Blender Extensions platform, so it installs by drag and drop. Rasheed Shaikh writes: It builds studio lighting rigs from presets – 17 of them, each with a rendered thumbnail, so you pick a look rather than read a name. What it […]

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Vallen Koscheev is an Animation Supervisor who has animated on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning features. In this course, Vallen teaches the complete workflow he developed and has been using consistently across all the movies he’s worked on. Vallen writes: Hello BlenderNation! Over a decade ago, I started my animation journey right here in Blender, creating short […]

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In his latest video, Thomas Kral reflects on the impact of AI on artists. Thomas writes: In the year 2026, a major turning point occurred for many creative people. People who had devoted their entire lives to developing their artistic, aesthetic, and creative skills were suddenly confronted with a new technology that automated a large […]

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Tabs bring web-browser / game-engine-like tabs to Blender. Several editors sharing one area, each keeping its own state. Add, rename, reorder and close them, drag a tab to another area or tear it off into its own window, and lock the ones a layout depends on.

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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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