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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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AI-powered browser-based tool generates idles and movement cycles from text prompts. You can export five per month in FBX format.

Node Runner lets you export selected Blender nodes as Hash, JSON, or XML and share them as plain text. So instead of sending a full .blend file, you can just share the node tree itself. It supports all Blender node tree types, including: Shader nodes Geometry nodes Compositor nodes The Hash format is compressed to […]

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Gleb Alexandrov writes: Did you know that in Blender 5.1 you can (finally!) control EEVEE ray tracing intensity? In this video, we take a look at this small but powerful feature – brought to us by Trita Norousi and Clément Foucault – and why it’s basically a shortcut to better-looking EEVEE renders. If you’ve ever […]

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Artist-focused platform aims to provide a better way to share CG shorts, breakdowns and demo reels than the big video hosting services.

New online service automatically generates alpha mattes for image sequences or videos. See how it compares to other AI roto tools.

Check out the updates to animation and rendering in the real-time 3D engine. New pricing, but still free for indie games and VFX projects.

Chris Bailey shows how to model, texture, light and render a ball point pen in Blender.

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A new policy on Superhive will limit product purchases to 12 months of support, with paid upgrades required for newer versions. This article covers the debate that’s been taking place in the Blender community over the past week, following the release of Superhive’s email to a small group of creators about their new Support Periods […]

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Directors Harmony Korine and Sam Goldwater continues their expansion into game culture with a new trailer for Marathon, the upcoming title from Bungie. Created through Korine’s experimental studio EDGLRD, the trailer leans into abstraction, atmosphere, and sensory impact, favoring mood over exposition

Dust Particles+ has always been about a lightweight, procedural way to add atmosphere (and life!) to your scenes without the default Blender particle system headaches. This update pushes things a fair bit further in that direction by introducing… well, procedural life. Gleb Alexandrov writes: We’ve included generators for things like swarming insects, bees and birds. […]

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Sparseal's promising new tool for non-photorealistic texturing is now available for Windows desktop and mobile systems, as well as iPads.

Check out the new features in the image-editing app, including tighter integration with online mood boarding platform Firefly Boards.

VFX and motion graphics tools firm buys Magix's pro video and audio editing software. New version of Vegas Pro already available.

You are invited to a 90-minute live, interactive leadership development session exploring what it truly means.

After 25 years, OFFF Barcelona director Pep Salazar has one answer for why thousands of creatives keep boarding planes to Barcelona every April: "OFFF is a peaceful place to meet. And we need these places, especially now." In this exclusive conversation, Salazar opens up about the festival's evolution, the metaverse experiment he'd rather forget, why Motion Design is the full rock band, and what must never be lost when he's no longer in the room.