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Blender Jobs for September 25, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Generalists and Specialists to Create Original Work For more jobs, look here.
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-39
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.
See Redchillies.vfx’s breakdown for The Ba***ds of Bollywood
Watch a making-of for the effects from Netflix's satirical action drama, including the high-octane climactic CG car chase.
Motionographer’s 20th celebrations continue this Saturday. There’s still time to join us.
Free party tickets for Motionographer's 20th at Mamacita went fast, but general admission is still open on Dice and at the door. Motion Plus Design New York takes the stage at Roulette from 1 pm, and a few seats remain. Then the whole room moves to Deluxx Fluxx, doors at 10.
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2027.1 in alpha
Updated for Alpha 3: next major version of the GPU renderer can now bake SDFs to meshes, to use as proxy geometry in simulations.
Check out Vine FX’s VFX breakdown for Alice and Steve
Watch the studio's breakdown of a blazing building, with simulated fire, smoke and particles, from the finale of the Disney+ 'wrong-com'.
Retopology Using the Smart Retopo Tool#3DCoat #Retopology #SmartRetopo #3DModeling #3DArt
Create This Simple Realistic Landscape in Blender
Yeho Studios shows how to set up landscapes in Blender. Have you ever found trouble creating nature art in Blender? Or are you struggling to create a realistic nature scene as a beginner? I understand you because I have been there before. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to create this […]
Adobe acquires Topaz Labs
Adobe buys pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.
Who Moved My Work? Tim Thompson on RevThink’s The Weekly Briefing
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: A Blender Character Rig Overview
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 […]
See Image Engine’s breakdown for Avatar: The Last Airbender S2
Check out the studio's VFX breakdown for the spectacular elemental duels from Season 2 of the fantasy action-adventure series.
Blender Foundation Annual Report 2025
The 2025 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.
Your Sci-Fi Turret Looks Great. Until It Rotates from Under the Floor
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 […]
Exode (short film made with Blender)
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 […]
Light It Up 4.0.0: a free add-on for studio lighting presets
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 […]
Animation Workflow Course
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 […]
Motion Plus Design New York
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 »
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