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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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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [LONG-TERM] Technical Blender Artist for Mobile Game Advertising Technical Art Graduate Program – Vancouver [PAID] Blender Environment Artist Wanted — Exalted Sandbox / Babylon.js Technical Art Graduate Program – Novato Technical Art Graduate Program – Dublin Junior 3D Artist – […]

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Let’s dive deep into shader nodes and create a procedural glowing mushroom in Blender.

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Learn all you need to know to model an X-wing, starting from just the default cube. Chris Bailey covers everything from the ground up and he goes slow to keep things clear and help you follow along.

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Interior is a project-based course about making beautiful interior renders in Blender, one focused scene at a time. Across six sessions, instructor Sascha Feider builds six complete vignettes from a default scene to a polished final image or animation: a sunlit staircase, a coffee corner, a flowing curtain, a marble colonnade, a cabin with a […]

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In this video Blender Secrets looks at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work.

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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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