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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 01 September 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-08-18 iPad/Tablet Design Workshop 2025-08-28 Core Module Meeting 2025-08-28 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-08-28 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-08-29 Projects Updates meeting 2025-09-01 Viewport & EEVEE Module meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last [...]
Chaos releases Vantage 3.0 in beta
Major update to the real-time ray tracing renderer adds initial support for USD, MaterialX, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and volumes.
Blender Jobs for September 5, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lead 3D Artist - Monopoly GO! Senior VFX Artist - Monopoly GO! Twine | Freelance 3D Artist Fully Remote 3D Paid Blender role, apply now work next week! Multiple openinf Invisible Expert Marketplace | 3D Modeler Specialist - AI Trainer [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-36
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.
An Even Better(!) Eevee Subsurface Scattering Translucency Shader
Gleb Alexandrov writes: Update: Since you guys really enjoyed the new Eevee translucency method suggested by Adam Janz, and Reddit blessed it with 1500 upvotes, I give you the SSS translucency tuto.
Chaos adds AI Material Generator to V-Ray 7.1.2 for SketchUp
Experimental cloud-based tool generates PBR materials and texture maps from real-world reference photos. Find more details here.
3DCoat Low-Poly Modeling for Beginners #30. Dinosaur. Part 6
3DCoat Low-Poly Modeling for Beginners #29. Dinosaur. Part 5
3DCoat Low-Poly Modeling for Beginners #28. Dinosaur. Part 4
Hard Surface Modeling in Blender - Cylinders & Booleans
Here's an excellent introduction to some basic modeling techniques by Josh from Blender Bros.
The Hunters - Part 4
Ali Awada continues his saga of Jurassic Park fan videos. Behavioural Paleontologist Tony's curiousity about the buck tyrannosaur's uncharacteristic behaviour has lead him to follow the dinosaur through the jungle towards the hunters' base camp. From his vantage point, Tony listens to the tyrannosaur’s calls. He is fascinated, but then the faintest of breaths catches [...]
Procedural Stylized Sand Material
In this Blender tutorial we will create this Procedural Stylized Sand Material.
Get free Maya character rigging toolset mGear 5.1
Update to the open-source Maya rigging and animation framework resolves compatibility issues with popular blendshape editor Shapes.
Announcing “Impulse Purchase” Animated Video
Blender Studio partners with outstanding talent to bring OK Go's “Impulse Purchase” track to life in a spectacular new visual.
Ephere releases Ornatrix 3ds Max 9
Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya 5
Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.
CG Geek vs. Ai
Short Video: The Fly
Ivo van de Grift revisits his mechanical contraptions with this miniature wing-flapping machine. It doesn't do too well. About two weeks ago I started a new Blender Pet Project; ‘The Fly’. I wanted to create a robot-like fly with lots of moving parts. My goal was to have a single control point for the wing [...]
AI Assistant
Headphones Product Animation Tutorial
Let’s model, light and animate a detailed headphones product shot in Blender with Polygon Runway.