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Blender Jobs for May 30, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Rival | 3D Artist / Generalist Python Coder Needed for Custom Add-on, Paid Facial Animator Shape Keys 4710 Productions | Blender Lighting Artist (Unpaid) Freelance Hard Surface 3D Character Modeler / RIgging Python developer to build a custom add-on 🎬 [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-22
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.
Boris FX releases Silhouette 2025
Check out the new features in the roto and paint app, including new AI tools for refining masks, generating depth maps, and fixing glitches.
Itoosoft releases RailClone 7
Popular parametric modeling plugin gets versatile new Spline Operators, and procedural systems for creating windows, walls, ceilings and cables.
Baga River Generator lets you draw rivers into Blender scenes
Neat add-on lets you create good-looking rivers, complete with surrounding terrain, simply by drawing a path in the viewport.
3 Ways to Utilize Proxies in Blender
Spencer Magnusson writes: Proxies are a common industry standard in reducing geometry and making the viewport faster. Few people know that Blender already utilizes proxies within Blender. Let me show you 3 methods (2 of which are automatic!).
SkySplat: Drone video to 3D Gaussian Splat Workflow Addon
SkySplat is a free Blender addon that simplifies the workflow for creating 3D Gaussian Splats from drone footage. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline the process from video import to frame extraction, and loose integration of Blender with COLMAP and GraphDeco-INRIA's gaussian splatting repo. After several sessions of command line tomfoolery, I [...]
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.0
Discover key features for VFX artists and colorists in this major update to the free grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 20.0
Free update to the 3D compositor adds new deep compositing toolset, Cryptomatte support, and 180 VR workflows. See all the new features.
Chaos updates V-Ray, Corona and Enscape subscription plans
Node-locked licenses of the renderers ended, new ArchDesign, ArchViz and M&E Collection product bundles launched.
Creating Realistic Water Caustics in Blender
Ryan King shows us how to make realistic water caustics. I also have another tutorial on how to make the pool donuts:
POV Community Challenge “Worlds Next Door”
Calver school presents a global blender community challenge and collaborative short film. This unique initiative invites participants to create imaginative worlds and contribute to a collaborative animated short film, with opportunities to win empowering tools, software and gain industry recognition. Challenge Timeline: Challenge Start & Template Release: June 8, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 6, 2025 [...]
Ice Cream Truck Tutorial
Let’s create a cute stylized ice cream truck in Blender.
Check out 3D anatomy reference apps Hand Poses Lite and Pro
Can't get a live model? These UE5-based apps let you pose 3D hands to act as a reference when sketching, painting or sculpting.
Download free 8K HDRIs from VFX artist Simon Lachapelle
Get over 20 high-res HDRIs of natural exteriors and architectural interiors in EXR format, for VFX, visualization and motion graphics.
Free HDRI pack for Blender
Simon Lachapelle offers a new collection of professional-grade HDRi plates. Simon writes: Hey Blender friends, 👋 Over the past year, I’ve been studying how to create the best HDRIs possible and traveling around to capture and build a high-quality HDRI pack. I've been working in the VFX industry for the past 10 years, and this [...]
Discover how to create Lightning & Electricity Effects
Create energy FX using a robust generalist approach in Houdini, Maya and Nuke with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.
How to Create simple City generator with Blender Geometry Nodes
MrSorbias shows how to create a simple generator that will make city backgrounds for your animation projects. He will create a shader that will make mist effects to objects.
Google Summer of Code: Call for Applications
Every year, Google hosts their ‘Summer of Code’, a program to stimulate Open Source development by mentoring new developers for selected projects. If you’re interested to contribute to Blender with this 12-week long program, you can apply now!
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-21
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.