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Ryan King shows us the creation process of his Sunny Spring Garden stylized artwork in Blender.

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Poly Hammer's Character DNA add-on lets you edit MetaHuman facial and body rigs inside Blender, including their RBF corrective poses.

VFX artist Marty Blumen's neat free add-on renders volumes like clouds and fire in Nuke without round-tripping to an external renderer.

Promising 'minimalist 3D sculpting' tool runs in a browser, on Windows, Mac and Linux, and as an iPad app. Free for personal use.

3DShaker takes the design from 77 Studio Architecture and takes us through the steps to re-create it in Blender.

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If you want to 3D print some LEGO parts, try out this free add-on Maox. It generates procedural LEGO®-compatible bricks — manifold, print-ready, no Boolean ops needed. Hey everyone! I just released uBrick Generator, a free open-source Blender add-on that generates parametric LEGO®-compatible bricks — fully manifold and ready to slice for 3D printing, with [...]

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3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Build a layered landscape animation inspired by sunset graphics. Explore stacking techniques, offset animation, and clean color composition using procedural control. Happy Noding ... :)

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Digital painting and animation tool gets new accompanying web-based apps, including a complete low-poly 3D landscape generator.

SDK for games and CG software developers now includes AMD's Redstone AI rendering technologies, including the new AI denoiser.

Polygon Runway shares a commentary rundown of his latest Blender 5.0 90’s PC gaming inspired isometric illustration.

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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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Digital sculpting software gets its sixth consecutive annual update with no new features listed, but the price of annual subscriptions is up.

Rendering and visualization software gets support for OpenPBR materials in USD files, and updates to the rendering and animation toolsets.

I love it when Blender is used for science. Earlier this week we reported how Blender was used on the cover of Nature, and today we have an amazing story from MohammadHossein Jamshidi, who uses Blender for his research in cosmology. MohammadHossein writes: The early ideas to use Blender for Cosmology were enlightened in my [...]

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New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the Maya fluid dynamics plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Milad Kambar shares his collection of 'tools for real pipelines' that all solved real problems he ran into himself. Over the past months, I've been building tools that solve problems I kept running into in my own production work:  tedious exports, broken pipelines, and repetitive manual tasks. Every tool below was born from a real [...]

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New features in the character animation and mocap-editing software include new quaternion math tools for complex rigs.

New version of the production renderer includes 40 free hours per month on the tech preview of cloud rendering service Flow Render.

Check out the new features in the 3D modeling and animation tool, including Smart Bevel, the Noise Plus modifier and the Field Helper.

MAKE, a creative studio known for its storytelling through Motion Design, animation, and visual effects, is now accepting applications for its Summer 2026 Internship Program. Apply before March 29.