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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: I need Build a low-poly 3D version of a section of map coordinates set in Blender 5.0 using rea 3D Character Artist — Animated AI Companion Dog I need a model of a wristwatch that would also fit on a [...]

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Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.

Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.

Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease [...]

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Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Manual & UI Translations Cleanup: Removal of Inactive, Empty Translations Modules & Projects 2025-12-02 User Interface Meeting 2025-12-02 XR Meeting 2025-12-02 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-12-04 Core Module Meeting 2025-12-04 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-12-04 Platforms & Builds module meeting 2025-12-08 Viewport & EEVEE module [...]

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In this tutorial you'll learn how to generate Minecraft-like worlds inside of Blender using a free add-on. Get the Minecraft Generator here.

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Check out the new features in the desktop and VR sculpting tool, including a reworked 3D gizmo and an eye-catching Elastic Move tool.

Thanks to Blender 5.0's new Array Modifier, Dad's Castle shares a different approach to creating stylized pine trees using grease pencil brushes and the free “Grease Pencil to Curves” Blender extension. It’s easy to do, requiring no artistic skills in grease pencil. Enjoy and have a great day!

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The Blender Project mourns the loss of long-time contributor Germano Cavalcante.

Check out the features due in next year's major update to the terrain design app, including USD support and new Blender and Maya plugins.

Check out the changes to the popular set of Cinema 4D add-ons, also including GPU-accelerated smoke and fire simulation in NeXus.

Take a quiet tour around a wonderful world with Viral Chaudhari's Paperworld. A project to emulate paper craft virtually in 3D. I wanted the train to run naturally. In spite of animating the whole train, I went through some physics simulation test on train to run on tracks. It worked well. Rendered through Cycles Engine. [...]

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Blender is the fastest tool to edit videos, especially if your editing requires a lot of cutting and moving strips. Mumu Mundo writes: For some time now, I've been using Blender's VSE (Video Sequence Editor) for all my YouTube tutorials, and in this video, I'll show you my setup and all the tricks I've learned [...]

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Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new workflows for creating more complex forms for buildings.

Latest update to the production renderer extends support for MaterialX Lama and checkpointing inside RenderMan XPU.

Check out the new features in the set of tools for motion graphics and VFX artists, including generation of depth maps from video.