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The Path to the Heights - A Short Film Crafted with Blender
Ricardo A. B. Graca submitted his Blender work to the Hollywood North International Film Festival. You can watch it now and help him by adding your vote. Hello Blender Artists, Animators, Screenwriters, Blender Makers! We're thrilled to present our animated short film, "The Path to the Heights," which has been officially selected for the prestigious [...]
Master World Building using Blender and Photoshop
Discover how to create story-rich environment concept art for games and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.
Behind the Scenes: Afghan Girl Likeness
Discover the intricate art process behind Gündüz’s 3D modeling of the iconic 'Afghan Girl' photograph, where every detail, from texture mapping to lighting, brings a new depth and dimension to Steve McCurry's timeless image. INTRODUCTION Hello, my name is Volkan Gündüz. Before diving into 3D, I graduated from the Industrial Design department. During my final [...]
Projects to Look Forward to in 2025
The projects to keep an eye on in 2025!
Maya to Blender Shader Converter
Now we can convert Maya's AiStandardSurface shaders to Blender's Principled BSDF using this free addon that Robert Rioux developed with ChatGTP (thanks to Tinkerboi for the finishing touches).
How I Created a MASSIVE Lord of the Rings Orc Army... in Blender
The Animation YOU Can't Stop Watching | Blender Tutorial
The Best Way To Create Nature In 3D
Art Process: "How I Made This Stylized Lily Of The Valley Flower in Blender"
Lane Wallace writes: The flower was sculpted in Blender, and the benday dots were created using a simple NPR shader node setup that utilizes a voronoi texture with zero randomness.
Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack
Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.
Geo Nodes Follow Curves For Beginners
Learn the basics of geo nodes in blender with this cool liquid effect example, focusing on how to get objects to follow and orient along a curve.
How to Create a 3D Fire Tornado! (Blender Tutorial)
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-2
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.
Get modular Maya character rig builder Mansur-Rig for free
Updated: Version 2.6 of the facial and full-body rig builder for games, animation and VFX characters comes with this free bird rig.
SuperSpat 1.13 plays back animated ‘4D Gaussian Splats’
Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.
Adobe releases Substance 3D Modeler 1.18
Check out the new features in the virtual reality modeling software, including improvements to file export and primitives workflow.
Download free Houdini tools from Project Grot
Get free tools for generating procedural ruins and procedural flesh from SideFX's Houdini-to-UE5 game environment demo.
NVIDIA unveils GeForce RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti and 5070 GPUs
See the specs of the Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, and how they stack up in CG apps like D5 Render and DaVinci Resolve.
Maxon buys Laubwerk
Laubwerk's 3D plant models are now available to Cinema 4D users with Maxon One subscriptions, but are no longer for sale online.
Tik Manager 4 is a lightweight, robust open-source pipeline tool
Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.