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Immineal shares a rendering experiment. Cycles (like most RGB path tracers) approximates chromatic dispersion, the way glass bends different wavelengths by different amounts, by nudging the IOR per RGB channel. That’s a shortcut: real dispersion is a continuous function of wavelength, not three samples of it, and it’s most visible exactly where you’d want it, […]

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King creates a game ready low poly stylized hand painted shield 3d model.

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Someone Ate Her Pizza… That was a mistake. Agu Rex UD writes: This is an animation I made in Blender. It’s in an anime style. I rendered the animated characters and car in blender and then drew the background in Krita and added the lighting effects in Tahoma2D

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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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Let’s have some fun with the power of the curve profiles in Blender and create a vintage explorer’s lantern.

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This extension helps you optimize your Blender render times. Dustin Hanke writes: I recently released SceneTrace, a free and open-source Blender extension for tracking scene performance over time and helping answer a simple question: Why did my Blender scene get slower? As a scene grows, performance can gradually degrade because of geometry, modifiers, materials, collections, […]

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: PAID – Blue Zoo Animation Studio: Experienced Blender Modeller Opportunity For more jobs, look here.

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Your render looks flat because it is lit too evenly. Light It Up fixes that in one click, and then lets you take the result apart. It builds a real lighting rig around your object: 37 studio and portrait presets, including the six classic portrait patterns – Rembrandt, split, loop, butterfly, short and broad – […]

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A free Blender add-on suite for preparing figure models for 3D printing. 299 MODEL WORKS writes: The tools were developed from repetitive tasks I encountered while turning AI-generated figure meshes into printable parts. Version 1.0.0 includes seven tools: Size from Head Proportion – Calculates the scale factor needed to resize a figure from its current […]

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This tutorial walks through a complete Headshot 3 stylized image to 3D pipeline, turning a single piece of front-facing bodybuilder caricature art into a fully rigged, sculpt-ready CC5 character. You will generate a side-profile reference with AI, reshape the fitting splines to capture exaggerated proportions, sculpt the muscle groups in Blender as a non-destructive morph, […]

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In this new tutorial from C Bailey Film, get started modelling in Blender by learning the five basic tools you can use to make anything. The tutorial will cover the basics of modelling and the key concepts you need to succeed.

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Prism Suite is a paid Early Access interface layer for Blender. It does not replace Blender’s modeling, animation, rendering, or file format; it changes how you reach the native controls you already use. The beta combines 17 coordinated add-ons across sidebar tabs, toolbars, menus, Properties, modifiers, shape keys, Timeline, Video Sequencer, node editors, search, and […]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-08-31 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting 2026-08-31 Grease Pencil Module Meeting Notes 2026-08-31 Modeling Module Meeting 2026-09-01 Asset Libraries: Multi-File Support Meeting 2026-09-01 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-09-01 Sequencer Meeting 2026-09-02 User Interface Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Triaging Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Platforms & Builds […]

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Daniel shares his whole blender story, why he loves it, and how he uses it. Daniel Grove writes: I was honored to speak at the 2026 Blender Conference in Austin, Texas but due to time limitations and technical difficulties I wasn’t able to share everything I had planned. So here it all is!

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An open-source tool that makes photogrammetry textures tile seamlessly by using displacement-aware blending, created by Dorian Zgraggen.

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In this tutorial, learn this simple trick to generate a pile of objects in blender! This tutorial covers a simple geometry nodes setup that will allow you to stack any collection of objects and make a procedural pile generator tool.

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In this video, Blender Secrets explores how to reliably and easily turn boolean meshes into subdivision ready quad topology, using Exoside’s Quad Remesher.

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For Spider Verse, Sony developed proprietary tools to allow artists to create hand drawn line work that follows the animated characters. In this video,Derel Flood shares how you can do the same as an independent animator using Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes. To demo this I’m using this little shot, animated by the amazing Tiffany […]

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Introduction to Blender 3D: From First Open to First Render Saturday 26 September · 2–4pm In person at Lifefabs, Dalston, London + online Krish Girdhari writes: Never opened Blender? Perfect. In two hours I’ll take you from a blank viewport to a finished render — no experience needed. We’ll cover navigation, modelling, materials, lighting and […]

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Let’s model a sci-fi space helmet and learn some cool Blender tricks along the way!

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