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John R. Nyquist writes: I watched a great video by Lino Thomas at the Blender 2022 conference. Afterwards I felt like I had to explore further mirroring and bisecting (and flipping) to create complexity using the mirror modifier. Here’s my Bit: One hour of greeble - Live workshop at the Blender Conference 2022:

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PieterVermeersch shows you how to build your own custom traffic intersection using the 'The Roads Must Roll' add-on for Blender. And yes — traffic is included! The Roads Must Roll is the most customizable street tool for Blender, offering the most photo-realistic results with the least amount of effort. From roundabouts to Y-shaped junctions or [...]

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Oscar-nominated studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings joins industry body promoting open-source tech.

Blenderheads in Los Angeles are meeting this weekend! Stirling Goetz writes: Hey Y'all! Blender 4.5.x is out and the LA.Blend organizers are a little less organized than usual. We are scheduling a user group meeting but do not have any formal speaker sessions lined up like we usually do. That means this meeting will have [...]

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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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Scopely | 3D Art Lead - Monopoly GO! Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, |Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, (Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Script (Macro) [...]

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The Escapini Brothers are back and a job awaits them in a creepy castle! Check out this Grease Pencil production by Benjamin Aubone (and see episode one here). Benjamin writes: Hello, dear family of Artists! I'm very happy to share with you the new animated short film, The Escapini Brothers 2, made entirely in Grease [...]

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Get Chen Jian's Traditional Chinese-Style Park pack of detailed, modular architectural components free on Fab for two weeks.

Polyfjord uses his free Simple Audio Analyzer add-on to create a brilliant animated audio effect. Enjoy!

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Ryan King shows how to use Light Gobos in Blender to create the illusion of a complex environment with lighting.

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Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.

Check out the new features in the image-editing software - including a new AI compositing feature based on Project Perfect Blend.

Baeac shares a very straightforward method for rendering your Blender scenes as ASCII art. By calculating the brightness of squares and matching them with a predefined set of bitmaps, you get the nice eighties look. Enjoy!

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Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including better AI inbetweening and 3Dconnexion support.

Gleb Alexandrov writes: You know how important composition is, right? Well, here’s a neat Blender trick to think about it in terms of light and shadow.

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Summer is the time to have fun—to go big or go home. Make the best of it with a 40% discount on BlenderKit Full Plan and Blender add-ons. Hurry up; our summer sale will end in one week, on July 31. Get Full Plan 40% OFF BlenderKit is an extensive 3D asset library seamlessly integrated [...]

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"MR-07" is a cinematic visualization of a futuristic world, entirely created in Blender, with Cycles as the main rendering engine. The core of the scene is a highly detailed sci-fi ship, fully modeled from scratch inside Blender using traditional polygonal modeling techniques. While the main structure of the ship was manually crafted, the scene also [...]

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