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Keeping Visual Storytelling Alive: The Importance of the Concept Artist — Part 2
Concept Art doesn’t just decorate a production, it engineers it. In Part 2 of Keeping Visual Storytelling Alive, we move from history into the work itself, showing how concept artists turn research, references, and relentless experimentation into clear visual guides that teams can actually build from.
Through insights from Léa Pinto, David Palumbo, and Eduardo Peña, the piece highlights what makes Concept Art indispensable.
Autodesk releases Arnold 7.4.5
Check out the new features in the production renderer, including new shaders for non-photorealistic and motion graphics-style effects.
BritBox Launches Refreshed Brand Logo and New Motion and Sonic Branding Designed By Sibling Rivalry
BritBox, the leading streaming service for British television in North America, Australia and the Nordics, has unveiled a refined new brand identity designed in partnership with creative company Sibling Rivalry.
Stranger Things: Dustin & Suzie’s Never Ending Story | Pedro Allevato
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2026.2
Check out the latest features in the GPU production renderer, including support for meshlet streaming in network renders.
Try Scatter: a free physics-based scattering plugin for Blender
Intuitive free tool also lets you scatter objects on curves, surfaces or volumes, or place them by clicking in the viewport.
Get a free kitbash asset pack worth $50
Vampawn Entertainment's Medieval Modular Wall Pack is normally sold for $49.99. Blender, UE5, FBX, GLB and OBJ formats. Commercial use.
Vibe Coding: Comparing Lovable and Mocha
Target Holiday 2025 | Scholar
D5 Works: a 3D marketplace that charges you 0% commission
Read our FAQs on the free online stock asset markeplace from the creator of D5 Render, including its license conditions and stance on AI.
Maxon Introduces Cinebench 2026
Maxon is thrilled to announce the highly anticipated release of Cinebench 2026, its latest iteration of the industry-standard benchmarking software, which has been a cornerstone in computer performance evaluation for two decades.
Desastre Ambulante – Vonsexto | Sugar Studio / Green Gabriel & Vitor Duik
SketchUp to Blender: Migration Guide for Architecture and Design [$]
Allan Brito presents his latest book that will help transition SketchUp users. With the bulk of "professional" tools migrating to subscription models and slowing down on significant updates, many people have started looking for alternatives to replace their established workflows. A massive group of SketchUp users sees Blender as a potential replacement, not only for [...]
DreamWorks Animation releases MoonRay 2.40
Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.
PureRef 2.1 is out
Sizeable update to the popular reference image organization tool adds grid snapping, batch image processing and more drawing tools.
New tutorial – Introduction to Houdini: Fluids
Master Houdini's powerful fluid simulation toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed beginners' guide for VFX and games artists.
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-6
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.
Ultra-Mat: A New Material Workflow Inside EEVEE + Cycles
Experimental MV: Pixel Art ‘Fake Gameplay’ Traverses Eerie Liminal Spaces in Song Yeongnam’s [PO WAH BUILDING]
South Korean electronic artist Song Yeongnam has released the music video for the EP [PO WAH BUILDING 寶華大廈], transforming the album's conceptual narrative into a unique visual experience that blurs the line between sound and gaming.