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Join SouthernShotty as he walks us through all the exciting new Blender 4.3 EEVEE features! Blender 4.3 brings updates to EEVEE, its real-time render engine, making it more powerful and versatile than ever before. From improved lighting and shadow fidelity to enhanced material options and rendering capabilities, these updates are crucial for artists looking to [...]

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Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.

Blender users in Los Angeles are gathering this weekend!futurehack writes: Los Angeles Blenderheads! Blender 4.3 is scheduled to be released in November and so it's time to meet your peers, make some friends, and enjoy the glory of our favorite software package. Come to our meeting to hear about what's new with Blender, and hear [...]

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Blender Conference 2024 wrapped one week ago, hopefully we all made it past the post-bcon blues!

Set of effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps gets new AI-based motion blur filter and updates to Particle Illusion.

It's that time of the year again to dive into procedural design and let your creativity go wild!As always, you can participating by taking one of the Nodevember prompts and publishing your work wherever you feel comfortable and add the #nodevember or tag. Like last year, there's one prompt per two days, and there's no [...]

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Enjoy our selection of the top art from the Blender Artists forum this week!

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Bring your concept to life and get it ready for a 3D modeling with Grease Pencil with this new CG Cookie course. Before a concept can be realised in 3 dimensions, it must be redrawn in technical detail. In TURNAROUND, CG Cookie instructor Paul Caggegi will guide you through the steps necessary to produce a [...]

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Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.

Kevandram gives a super quick overview of some new GP features in Blender 4.3, and shows how to use them! Hey everyone! In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to convert 2D grease pencil strokes into 3D meshes in Blender 4.3 using Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes. I’ll walk you through the process [...]

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Would you know how to make realistic and cinematic animation using only a Blender? In this video, Slavoartist shows you the top features of how he does his cinematic animation using only Blender.

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GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Reallusion’s 2024 3D Character Contest was held between May 1st to September 30th, 2024. Within 3 months, 267 submissions were submitted from 55 countries. showcases the best 3D character design and animation created using Reallusion’s powerful character production ecosystems - Character Creator for 3D character creation, iClone for facial and body animation, and AccuRIG for [...]

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Luc Affo shares an in-depth overview of the creation of his short 'Ninbot' film on Blender Artists. Hello, this is my first post on the forum. It’s my short film made in 3 months. The majority of the project was done in Blender, and for the other software, ZBrush, Substance, Nuke, and Photoshop. Even though [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Watch over 80 talks from Blender Conference 2024 New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org. Compositor Implement nodes for new CPU compositor: Vector [...]

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Let’s model and animate a 3D UI element and switch between light and dark modes in Blender!

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