BlenderNation

As always, you can meet the Blender team at SIGGRAPH. Here’s an overview of what you can expect. SIGGRAPH is from Sunday, July 19 until Thursday, July 23 this year. As always, there will be a community booth, several ‘Birds of a Feather’ community gatherings and a talk of Blender’s support of OpenPBR. See the […]

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Satendra Saraswat created a simple low-poly rock generator using Blender 5.1 geometry nodes. It has three types of rock setup. The original Blender file is freely available to download.

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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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In this video Jan van den Hemel looks at setting up the nodes for tearing cloth apart in Blender 5.2.

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The Blender Studio is now focusing (again) on developing a feature-length movie, and they need to reach 7,000 Blender Studio subscribers to finance it. Co-directors Hjalti Hjálmarsson and Rik Schutte set the scene of OVERGROWN in a post-human robo-apocalyptic world reclaimed by nature. As the unlikely family duo [editor’s note: unclear what this duo is, […]

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King teaches the basics of Geometry Nodes for Beginners.

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Monitor, preview, and control Blender renders from a phone or browser, from anywhere. A Blender add-on plus Android / web companion apps. Everything is handled on the server, so there’s no port forwarding, no VPN, and no static IP. Pair by scanning a code; everything is end-to-end encrypted. Render Control is purpose-built for one problem, […]

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Blender 5.2 LTS is about to drop and it contains a LOT of updates! The full list of changes is available here, but let’s zoom in on the changes in the physics: new cloth and hair options, effectors (like colliders and force) and the big one: the XPBD Solver that drives the new cloth and […]

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Blender 5.2 Beta brings one of the biggest Grease Pencil updates since 3.0. This video covers 16+ major improvements, including a new Delaunay fill solver, faster material rendering with dots and squares, Bézier/NURBS/Catmull-Rom curve support, and 23 free textured brushes. Mumu Mundo  takes us on a tour. What’s covered New Delaunay Fill Solver (fixes gaps) […]

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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: Blender – Simulator Airport, City, Logistics, Industrial 3D Modeler [PAID] 3D Model Cleanup for 3D Printing – GLB File Touch-Up | $40–$80 Production-Ready Stylized Cartoon Character for CC5/iClone Animation Installation artist is lookig for 3d visualization for an upcoming project […]

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This free add-on makes Blender projects self-contained for sharing in one click. JohnnyCake writes: I released a free Blender extension called Blend Project Packer. It packages a saved Blender project into a self-contained folder or zip, making it easier to move, share, archive, or render on another machine without paths and dependencies breaking. A .blend […]

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Let’s use basic tools and texturing tricks to quickly create a stylized starfighter in Blender!

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Mixos is a browser-based 3D texture painter that drops neatly into a Blender workflow. Export your model from Blender as OBJ, FBX or glTF/GLB, paint and layer PBR materials on it in a single browser tab, then bring the maps straight back into Blender’s Principled BSDF. No install, no license. Why it might be useful […]

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Do you know what 8 days without sleep does to a person? Somnus is a haunting movie by Zane Olson, describing the mysterious arrival of giants and the loss of sleep everywhere on earth. First and foremost this project wouldn’t have been worth the effort has it not been for Håvard Dalen‘s LensSim addon. I […]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Welcomes Le Gia Bao receives a development fund grant to help the EEVEE & Viewport team. Modules & Projects 2026-06-16 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2026-06-16 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2026-06-17 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2026-06-17 User Interface Meeting 2026-06-19 Project Updates meeting 2026-06-19 […]

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: For Hire: 3D Environment Artist 3D jersey mock up for specific pattern – paid work Looking to hire Blender Enthusiasts Blender Technical Artist – Camera Projection Mapping to Custom 5-Sided Immersive Room Template Character Animator Developing a Christmas Tree App […]

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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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Join Gray Area for a 10-week online class on Personal Worldbuilding with 3D Modeling in Blender this summer. Register here Every Saturday, July 11 – September 12, 2026 10 AM – 1 PM PT | 1 PM – 4 PM ET $1500 for Live Online Access $750 for Audit Access (weekly recording access, released after […]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: In this free lesson from my Hard Surface Sculpting course, we look at how to make tiling displacement maps, a tool that allows for quick overall detail generation for mech concepts.

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