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Boost your render times with Render Optimizer Pro. Introducing Render Optimizer Pro for Blender 5.x A professional-grade intelligent render analysis and optimization system designed specifically for modern Blender pipelines. Instead of forcing users to manually experiment with hundreds of render settings, Render Optimizer Pro analyzes your scene automatically and applies optimization strategies based on: geometry […]

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [Paid] Video Editor Wanted — Blender Addon Tutorial + Trailer [PAID] 3D Character Modeler needed — 7 stylized characters, 2-week turnaround Senior / Director VFX Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) / Europe Senior Character Artist Unity3D Europe, Remote / Permanent […]

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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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Learn how to fix bad walk cycle animation and turn stiff movement into believable character motion. This complete tutorial covers timing, weight, posing, hip rotation, overlap, foot contact, and professional animation workflow techniques. Dikko writes: In this animation tutorial, I break down common walk cycle mistakes and show how to improve them step by step […]

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Can Apple’s cheapest laptop genuinely handle Sculpt Mode? Michael Bridges put the MacBook Neo through a full stress test to find out where it breaks, then compared it against two very different machines. In this video I push the MacBook Neo from 200,000 to 12 million polygons in both Object Mode and Sculpt Mode, testing […]

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KuboZ created this real-time house editor for his Bachelor’s thesis. Wallachian House Generator is a Geometry Nodes library for Blender. Create and edit buildings with the traditional architectural style of the Moravian Wallachia region and its surrounding areas! The modifier will transform a simple shape into a wooden house in a few clicks! The library […]

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Washington solves a minor annoyance he found with Linux Mint. I came across this issue in Blender while using It in Linux Mint. No text accent at all. In this video I show how to fix the issue using the tool I have created to remove the barrier that prevents Blender to understand Keyboard accent […]

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Thomas Kole shares this geometry setup to generate cobwebs for any mesh in Blender. It includes a physics simulator with an interactive mode, allowing you to tweak the result.

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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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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: REMOTE: 2D NSFW Artist / Comic Designer / NSFW 18+ / 2D Animator Looking for a Level Designer — Low-Poly Map Looking for a paid 1:1 tutor, stylized 3D character modeling (Blender, Kirby/Nintendo-style) Paid work to clean up STL file […]

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Learn how to draft 2D floor plans in Blender from scratch: add dimensions, import DWG blocks, render NPR line art, export to scale with this new course by Allan Brito. Most people associate Blender with 3D rendering, animation, and visual effects. But Blender’s precision modeling tools, real-world unit system, and NPR rendering engine make it […]

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King explains how to use Subsurface Scattering for beginners.

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Issanou updated his Blender particle system to run entirely on the GPU. I just released the GPU version of Phenix: the result of a full year of dedicated development to finally complete the vision I had for this tool. The entire particle simulation now runs on your graphics card, not the CPU — so you […]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-05-11 Grease Pencil Module Meeting 2026-05-12 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-05-12 Sequencer Meeting 2026-05-12 Sequencer Meeting 2026-05-13 User Interface Meeting 2026-05-18 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For […]

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Washington takes some inspiration from V-Ray and extends Blender’s AO with this add-on. In this video I am showing you this add-on that brings extra ambient occlusion to the render tab, similar of what Vray can do, but in Cycles. We all know that we can tweak Ambient Occlusion in Compositor, but lets agree that […]

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Let’s learn how to quickly create and connect pipes in Blender using correct geometry.

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Design a minimal motion system combining vertical bars and dynamic spheres. Learn structured animation timing, motion layering, and balanced composition techniques.

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For many solo developers and 3D illustrators, the “character hurdle” is the most common reason projects remain unfinished. Traditionally, building a high-end character like a John Wick caricature demands a daunting manual workflow: sculpting from a sphere, retopologizing for animation, unwrapping UVs, and weight painting a suit. This breakdown focuses on a pipeline that skips […]

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Large Blender scenes become messy fast. Duplicate materials pile up silently. Hidden orphan datablocks inflate file sizes. Massive textures destroy memory usage. Dependencies become impossible to track safely. Scene Auditor Pro helps find and clean up junk in your Blender projects.<!–more–> Eventually, many artists reach the same point: “Why is this .blend file suddenly 2GB?” […]

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Learn how to create a subtle space animation, complete with sound effects, of a black hole surrounded by a nebula and an asteroid belt in Blender in this 4 HOUR class by Harry Helps. Hello Everyone! I have another free Blender class to share! This time we’re creating a black hole animation, surrounded by a […]

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