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Standalone app and plugin for adding cinematic effects to still images also now works with non-Adobe software, including Affinity.

Adobe to buy pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.

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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Join Gray Area for a 10-week online class on Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender this summer. Register here Every Saturday, July 11 – September 12, 2026 10 AM – 1 PM PT | 1 PM – 4 PM ET $1500 for Live Online Access $750 for Audit Access (weekly recording access, released after […]

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Rendering and visualization software gets Apple GPU support, a new cloud rendering service, and new subscription pricing.

Pro photogrammetry tool can now use both AMD consumer and workstation GPUs to speed up processing. Free to indie artists.

Jan van den Hemel writes: In this free lesson from my Hard Surface Sculpting course, we look at how to make tiling displacement maps, a tool that allows for quick overall detail generation for mech concepts.

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Updated: check out motion designer Mike Gaynor's neat After Effects alternative, currently free in beta - and now available for Windows.

Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.

New free edition of the real-time animation software can be used indefinitely, including on commercial projects - but there are limitations.

For several years, the Blender Foundation has been asking to not use the name ‘Blender’ in the name of companies and their products, mainly to avoid a sense of them being official or endorsed. Community sites are generally exempt from this (phew!), but they will actively work with more commercial parties to update to a […]

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Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine and real-time renderer, from better area lighting to HDR output.

Battlefield 6 developer becomes the latest - and highest-profile Corporate Platinum sponsor - of the open-source game engine.

In this sample from his E-book, Jan van den Hemel looks at the Double Subdivision method, where he combines two Subdiv modifiers with different settings to quickly create an all-quads base mesh, which can then be further detailed with either mesh modeling or sculpting techniques.  

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At the 2026 Tribeca Festival, Paul Rudd sat down with Seth Meyers for a conversation about instinct, taste, and the courage to stay curious across 30-plus years on screen. What Rudd's choices, from Marvel to Mac and Me, teach anyone who makes work between commerce and expression.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including the option to relight and render imported 3D Gaussian Splats.

In this Blender tutorial we will create this Procedural Picnic Blanket Fabric Material.

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