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Adobe buys pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.

AI didn’t arrive yesterday. Clients didn’t wake up this morning and decide they could do more themselves, and the value of creative work didn’t change overnight. But it is easy to get comfortable with where the work has always come from, what clients have always paid for, and what studios have always been hired to... Read more »

Rigging Ormie is a two-part deep dive into how Level Pixel Level rigged this character for Blender. Ormie was originally built in a Maya-base pipeline. In these videos, I review the techniques and workflows I used to recreate this rig in Blender. Part 1 focuses on the body rig: Part 2 focuses on the face […]

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Check out the studio's VFX breakdown for the spectacular elemental duels from Season 2 of the fantasy action-adventure series.

The 2025 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.

A new Blender 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.8 course connects stylized hard-surface modelling, baked masks and Blueprint controls in one playable project. Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. A sci-fi turret is one of those assets that can look completely finished in Blender and still be nowhere near ready for a game. The model […]

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Wixie Man shares the full version of his Sci-fi short. A few months ago, I posted an article on Blendernation about a science fiction short film made with the help of Blender. The film has wrapped up its festival run and is now available on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to […]

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Light It Up is a free and open source lighting add-on. It’s on the Blender Extensions platform, so it installs by drag and drop. Rasheed Shaikh writes: It builds studio lighting rigs from presets – 17 of them, each with a rendered thumbnail, so you pick a look rather than read a name. What it […]

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Vallen Koscheev is an Animation Supervisor who has animated on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning features. In this course, Vallen teaches the complete workflow he developed and has been using consistently across all the movies he’s worked on. Vallen writes: Hello BlenderNation! Over a decade ago, I started my animation journey right here in Blender, creating short […]

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This is the film Motion Plus Design opens with on Saturday, September 26, at Roulette in Brooklyn: the speakers, one by one, and the people standing behind the day. Mehdi Hadi, Saad Moosajee, Bhakti Patel, Danaé Gosset, Brian Yoo, Rachel Brickel and Vallée Duhamel, with Spenser Dickerson of Render Network and Áron Filkey of Runway.... Read more »

New update to Blender Development Fund now lets supporters to highlight favorite projects on the Roadmap page, boosting their visibility and demand.

In his latest video, Thomas Kral reflects on the impact of AI on artists. Thomas writes: In the year 2026, a major turning point occurred for many creative people. People who had devoted their entire lives to developing their artistic, aesthetic, and creative skills were suddenly confronted with a new technology that automated a large […]

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Check out the week's other updates to CG tools, like animation library builder Animcraft, game engine Unigine, and OctaneRender.

Tabs bring web-browser / game-engine-like tabs to Blender. Several editors sharing one area, each keeping its own state. Add, rename, reorder and close them, drag a tab to another area or tear it off into its own window, and lock the ones a layout depends on.

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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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Twenty years of championing Motion Design deserve a celebration. Motionographer marks its 20th anniversary with Motion Plus Design New York and “20 Seats for 20 Years,” celebrating the creative community at the heart of it all.

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [LONG-TERM] Technical Blender Artist for Mobile Game Advertising Technical Art Graduate Program – Vancouver [PAID] Blender Environment Artist Wanted — Exalted Sandbox / Babylon.js Technical Art Graduate Program – Novato Technical Art Graduate Program – Dublin Junior 3D Artist – […]

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Let’s dive deep into shader nodes and create a procedural glowing mushroom in Blender.

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