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Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.

Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.

Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".

Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.

Jason van Gumster writes: The second-ever official BCON in North America is coming to Austin, Texas on April 13th-14th! Two years ago, we hosted BCON LA and by all accounts it was an incredible event to attend. We're aiming to do it again... perhaps even better. And we want you there! Of course, the cornerstone [...]

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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: Senior Animator (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Solve these non manifold edges on my stl Hiring 3D Clothing Artists – Roblox UGC AAA Game Ad - 3D tracking and asset placement Closed Artist redisidence in an math Lab at Sorbonne (Paris) Concept [...]

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Dell becomes the first major PC manufacturer to back development of the open-source 3D software, contributing €30,000/year.

Michel Anders writes: Hi everybody, as some of you might know, I more or less stopped all my commercial work on Blender add-ons, but that doesn´t mean I stopped caring about Blender. So I started working on a video series on Blender add-on developments for beginners. It is completely free, has a GitHub repository with [...]

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Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.

Check out the new features for CG, VFX and motion graphics artists in the latest major update to Adobe's compositing software.

Jan van den Hemel writes: I asked the community for some interesting shapes to model, and Blacksmith Pliers was one of the interesting suggestions. Watch me figure out how to model it!

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“So what exactly do you do?” Concept Art is often difficult to explain, yet it sits at the very foundation of visual storytelling. It is the first visual translation of an idea, shaping worlds, characters, and tone long before a final product exists. Often unseen and under-acknowledged, Concept Artists quietly define the visual language of film, animation, and games. This article explores why Concept Art matters and why it remains essential to the stories we love.

mylowpolygon writes: I originally started working on this in December 2023 so the creation of this title sequence has taken longer than the entire Ncuti Gatwa era. This was mostly done in Blender and Davinci Resolve/Fusion with a little bit of embergen.

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