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In this video Johnny Matthews looks at rigging a strange little machine I put together and in the process learn about rigging gears and crankshafts, as well as using drivers with your armature bones.

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VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.

How does a displacement work with EEVEE and Cycles in Blender? What's the difference between texture and modifier displacement? Let's see.

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New native After Effects plugin provides a fast, efficient way to create IK rigs for arms and legs for character animation.

Inspired by Lord of the Rings (of cours), FXForge set to recreate the epic battle scenes in Blender. What do you think of the result? Key Techniques Covered: Utilizing Blender’s powerful animation tools to design large-scale battle scenes. Incorporating motion capture data for realistic character movement. Enhancing visual effects to add depth and intensity to [...]

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Explore how Tianyi Zhu crafted the captivating background for her short film Pan Si, from sculpting terrain to scattering plants, using Blender to bring the scene to life. INTRODUCTION My name is Tianyi Zhu, a CG freelancer from China. I started working in architectural visualization in 2002 and have received several industry awards, including: First [...]

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DroneCam is an FPV Drone Simulator Addon for Blender that let you fly using a gamepad/controller. You control the drone directly in the viewport, in real time. Why? It's fun, it's fast, and it makes realistic camera movements. Add the drone, Fly around the scene, and Render. It's a better solution than making those stiff [...]

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Blender Bob's Render manager v01 for Blender is good to go - go get it for free! Now you can easily manage your render layers and collections and add Nuke compatibility. This addon will create a new section in the renderder setting that will allow you to create or delete new render layers, change their [...]

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Updated: AI app for upresing photos and 3D renders gets generative AI-based upscaling model; option to batch process images in the cloud.

Learn how to create a detailed wooden barn in this free 2-hour tutorial! From modeling the basic structure to adding wooden planks and designing the interior, this step-by-step guide will help you build a realistic barn from scratch. Perfect for Blender users looking to enhance their modeling and texturing skills. Watch the full tutorial now [...]

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"A World Divided" is a six episode historical drama series based on true events seamlessly integrating never before seen archival footage with engrossing fictional drama (IMDB). Our VFX breakdown for "Die Spaltung der Welt/A World Divided" is ready! All things 3D were made in Blender :)

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The newest version of our huge the BlenderKit 3D asset library focuses on automatic port switching, improved compatibility with the latest Blender alphas, better brush handling, and more responsive polling intervals. Improvements ✏️ Brush Appending Improvements Resolved compatibility problems with brushes from pre-Blender 3.5, ensuring they work correctly in Blender 4.3, 4.4-alpha, and beyond. 🔌 [...]

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Here's an overview of the features and improvements added to UVPackmaster in the recent releases. Support for GPU accelerated packing on Macs (using the Vulkan API). New variant of the pack operation: Repack With Others. Repack all selected islands with all unselected islands which are already placed in the target box: Support for a new [...]

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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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A simple tutorial to learn how to add image textures to your models. Aimed at beginners.

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Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.

Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available

The Kamvas 22 Plus is an affordable pen display for beginners and pro artists on a budget. See how it handled 3D as well as 2D workflows.