Aggregator

Pietro Chiovaro created this 3D VFX animation in Blender, blending real footage of New York City with a 3D-animated Spider-Man. This project was a fun challenge, combining CGI and live-action to bring the web-slinger to life. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have any tips, drop them in the comments below! :D Software: [...]

Source

Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.

In this video Spencer Magnusson looks at Blender optimization . He goes over visibility settings for objects and collections, and the WHY you would (and should) use all of them.

Source

VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click, to prepare them for animation or rendering.

BlindIllusionist shared this impressive short scene that he re-created in Blender from Jurassic World. After seeing the announcement for a new Jurassic World movie I rewatched the original Jurassic Park and wanted to see if I might be able to achieve something similar as the scene in the beginning, where the helicopter approaches Isla Nublar [...]

Source

Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.

Explore how Chase McGill brings Minecraft’s blocky hero to life with unsettling hyper-realism, transforming Steve into a grotesquely detailed 3D masterpiece. INTRODUCTION Hello, my name is Chase McGill, and I am a 3D generalist based in New Jersey and Los Angeles. I love using Blender to create realistic characters—sometimes serious and sometimes goofy. My “serious” [...]

Source

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.

Source

Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

The February 2025 update for 'Node Charts: Info Graphs for Blender' has been released, here are the features. New Heatmap added: Heatmap added with support for up to a 10×10 grid, allowing up to 100 data points, bringing the total to 25 graphs.

Source

Chaos adds AI visualization and ideation app Veras to its product line. See what the buyout means for users of both firms' tools.

It's time to update your Blender LTS! Both the 4.2 and 3.6 branches have received some critical updates. The 'Long Term Support' versions offer stability for environments that require it, at the cost of not receiving any new features. Blender 4.2.7 LTS, supported until July 2026, received 18 fixes. Blender 3.6.21 LTS, supported until June [...]

Source

Sizeable update to the real-time visualization app adds volumetric clouds, Virtual Shadow Maps and automatic LOD generation.

[Sponsored] Online render farm Forrender argues that traditional workflows provide control and scalability that new AI tools cannot.

Animating realistic faces is one of the hardest things to do in 3D animation. Thankfully we now have tools that allow you to record your face and apply those movements directly to your characters. Jamie Dunbar shows how. In this video I'll show you a completely free method to achieve this, as well as some [...]

Source

Kai describes how he achieved the gorgeous painting effect in his 'Bard' video. In this tutorial, I break down the process step by step—covering shader setup, textures, stylized shading techniques, and different line art approaches using Eevee, ensuring everything runs smoothly in real time within the viewport. This tutorial is a follow-up to my Bard [...]

Source

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3DGS data can now add camera animations to existing scans.