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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.
YouTube Said I Sucked at Animation... So I Animated This! FINALE
How to combine normals in Blender
Custom Logo for this 3D printed Filament Hinged Box
Blender 4.4 Brushes Are A Mess, Here's A Fix
In this video, Michael Bridges dives into the recent changes to how brushes work in Blender since version 4.3, especially in the 2D animation workspace with Grease Pencil. I explore the new asset-based system for brushes, which, while promising, presents a few usability challenges—particularly when it comes to customizing or creating new brushes. The interface [...]
Blender Jobs for May 23, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Bode Software | 3D prop and environment artist Looking for a 3d modeller to TieTalent | Senior Game Artist Mercor | 3D Artist Mercor | 3D Generalist Wiraa | 3D Game Artist Help with finalizing first animation scene for new [...]
Speedsculpt: Girl, Duck, and Soap Bubbles
Some impressive AND cute modeling by Natasha Medvedeva.
Boris FX adds new AI tools to Continuum 2025.5
Effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps get new AI tools for generating masks and depth maps, and fixing glitches. Prices up.
Death to Squishies
I asked Marcin Cieśla to tell us about his 'Death to Squishies' animation that was featured on BlenderArtists in March. Get ready for the delights and despairs of a one-man animation project which included dancing in front of his phone girl-band style for reference! A stort story about a certain animation. “Death to Squishies” from [...]
Animate for Concept Art: The New Workflow Combining AI [$, promoted]
Redefine Concept Art with Animation and AI Guidance using Reallysion's iClone. Hello, I’m Jakub Kaźmierczak, a concept artist specializing in environment concept art and key frames. I have been in the industry for the past 7 years. In my professional career, I work mostly for movies and game cinematics. Some projects being: “Three Body Problem”, [...]
50% Discount on Blender Secret Courses and Book [$]
Jan van den Hemel writes: Hi everyone, I'm currently running a big sale on all my educational material - 3 video courses and the Blender Secrets e-book. The courses have 50% off and the book 30%. Get them now!
In depth video - Fast Global Illumination Add Mode
Global Illumination calculates simulated how light in a scene behaves. It simulates light bouncing around and spreading diffusely by calculating object proximity, angles and more. It gives quite convincing results, but can be slow. James Crowther shows how to optimise it in your scenes for better rendering times. Just yesterday we released another video on [...]
Get free Maya and UE5 rigging tools mGear 5.0 and ueGear 1.0
Check out the latest features in the open-source Maya character rigging and animation framework and its new Unreal Engine bridge.
LuxCoreRender and BlendLuxCore 2.10 have been released
Development of the open-source CPU/GPU renderer and its Blender plugin now 'back on track' after three years. See what's new.
Behind the Scenes: Secret Bunker Roller Coaster Ride
Marty created this wild roller coaster ride and shares a detailed breakdown on Blender Artists. This is a project I’ve been working on for a while now – an animation of a wild roller coaster ride through a secret bunker hideout in the middle of the ocean! If you’re interested in how I made this [...]
Maxon discontinues ZBrushCore and ZBrushCoreMini
Sales and downloads of the cut-down editions of ZBrush to end on 30 May 2025, but a new 'freemium' desktop version is 'on its way'.
Get 50+ free assets for building a city scene in Unreal Engine
Get environment artist Emran Bayarti's Downtown Alley modular asset pack free for two weeks on Fab. For commercial use.
FPS Monitor
Manage Backgrounds with the Free Blueprints Add-on
Robert Rioux offers a free Blender add-on to easily manage background images for modeling. It will automatically set up all views and gives you the possibility to "swap axis" so the the X axis becomes the front view. Itm allows you to adjust all images at the same time too.