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Check out the new features in the production renderer, including tiled denoising, and support for the new versions of Maya and Houdini.

[Sponsored] Discover how Reallusion's free plugin streamlines the transfer of characters from Character Creator 4 to 3ds Max.

Check out the new features in the sculpting tool for VR and desktop systems, and its new lower-cost edition for Meta Quest 3 headsets.

Check out the changes to font browsing in the latest workflow update to the image editing and digital painting software.

New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Head into Seifi’s art journey as he ventures through various render engines to skillfully master his hyper-realistic art. INTRODUCTION Hi, I am Alireza Seifi, a 3D designer and environment artist born in Tehran, Iran. My main field of interest and focus was cinema and film music so with that background, I joined the 3D industry [...]

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Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Tracking app's new AI-powered roto workflow lets users isolate objects with a single click, then propagate the matte through an entire shot.

Discover how to create 3D designs that can be turned into physical movie props with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed tutorial.

Here's a great showcase of Blender work by a group of middle and high school students from Japan. Hello everyone! We are a group of junior high school students who will be introducing video works and tutorials created using 3DCG creation tools such as Blender. All of the first-year students will graduate and become members [...]

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Scene layout and rendering app gets new generative AI features, including a new text-to-3D system for creating background models.

New iPad and iPhone edition of Nekki's AI-assisted character animation software can now import and export data in FBX format.

The next prompt for the Blender Artists 10 Cubes challenge dropped! As always, you can find the rules, prompts and entries in the 10 Cubes category on Blender Artists. Have fun!

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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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Todor Nikolov has introduced a new course, Rigging Isn't Scary, designed for beginners and intermediate users. The course is structured into three levels, offering a gradual approach to rigging in Blender. While it will be available for free on YouTube once complete, Early Access is now open for a limited time, with additional benefits and [...]

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Check out the popular GPU-accelerated UV packing and UV stacking tool, now available for Maya as well as Blender.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Designer/Animator at White Label Customs inc For more jobs, look here.

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Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.

Semy created a pack of 15 useful Blender scripts, randing from keyframe and collection manipulation to mesh conversion and generation. A gift for our Blender Nation community! We made 15 Blender mini scripts and gave them totally for free. They will save you hours of tedious work inside the Blender. Get the scripts here. Here [...]

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