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Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 7 September 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-08-31 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting 2026-08-31 Grease Pencil Module Meeting Notes 2026-08-31 Modeling Module Meeting 2026-09-01 Asset Libraries: Multi-File Support Meeting 2026-09-01 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-09-01 Sequencer Meeting 2026-09-02 User Interface Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Triaging Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Platforms & Builds […]
Daniel Grove, “My Whole Blender Story”
Daniel shares his whole blender story, why he loves it, and how he uses it. Daniel Grove writes: I was honored to speak at the 2026 Blender Conference in Austin, Texas but due to time limitations and technical difficulties I wasn’t able to share everything I had planned. So here it all is!
Create Seamless PBR Textures With This Open Source Tool
An open-source tool that makes photogrammetry textures tile seamlessly by using displacement-aware blending, created by Dorian Zgraggen.
How to Pile Anything Using Geo Nodes!
In this tutorial, learn this simple trick to generate a pile of objects in blender! This tutorial covers a simple geometry nodes setup that will allow you to stack any collection of objects and make a procedural pile generator tool.
Booleans to Subdivision Topology with Quad Remesher
In this video, Blender Secrets explores how to reliably and easily turn boolean meshes into subdivision ready quad topology, using Exoside’s Quad Remesher.
Sticking Hand Drawn Ink Lines to 3D Animation with Blender Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes
For Spider Verse, Sony developed proprietary tools to allow artists to create hand drawn line work that follows the animated characters. In this video,Derel Flood shares how you can do the same as an independent animator using Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes. To demo this I’m using this little shot, animated by the amazing Tiffany […]
September 26, London – Introduction to Blender 3D : From First Open to First Render
Introduction to Blender 3D: From First Open to First Render Saturday 26 September · 2–4pm In person at Lifefabs, Dalston, London + online Krish Girdhari writes: Never opened Blender? Perfect. In two hours I’ll take you from a blank viewport to a finished render — no experience needed. We’ll cover navigation, modelling, materials, lighting and […]
Sci-fi Helmet Tutorial
Let’s model a sci-fi space helmet and learn some cool Blender tricks along the way!
Multiversal Short Film
Discover new dimensions, incredible creatures and an unexpected ending in Multiversal, Benji Aubone’s new Grease Pencil animation short in Blender.
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-36
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.
Blender Jobs for September 4, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID / LONG-TERM] Blender Generalist / Technical 3D Artist – Mobile Game Ads – 10+ Videos/Month Hiring Blender artist — Architecture Residential 3D Blender Motion Graphics Artsts Needed For more jobs, look here.
Fusion to Blender Bridge – keep your Blender materials when the CAD changes
This free add-on syncs your Fusion 360 models straight into Blender with one click, keeping materials, modifiers and light links intact through every re-sync. Jimin Kim writes: I model in Fusion 360 and render in Blender, and the part of that workflow nobody talks about is the second export. You export STEP or OBJ, reassign […]
Sculpting a Roman Bust Statue in Blender
In this Blender sculpting tutorial you will create this roman marble bust statue. The tutorial covers the complete real time process, including collecting references, sculpting the head, posing the sculpt, sculpting the fabric, adding materials, lighting, rendering, and animation.
Blender for Architecture with BonsaiBIM (Workshop)
Most people think of Blender as a rendering tool for architecture. This workshop proves it can produce the working drawings like floor plans, sections, schedules, and sheets. The type of output that an office actually delivers to a client. What it is Blender for Architecture with BonsaiBIM is a workshop with 18 lessons (20+ hours). […]
Grease Pencil to Solid Surface
This video by Blender Secrets shows a kind of experimental workflow for sketching in 3D with Grease Pencil, and then converting that to a solid surface mesh object. It’s not a super reliable workflow and it takes a bit of practice, so I don’t recommend it for most people. But maybe someone out there will […]
Retro TV Animation Tutorial
Let’s model a retro TV in Blender and play with shader nodes to add a static noise CRT effect on the animated screen.
Frame Perfect: put your Blender camera exactly where you’re looking
VeeVeeVee’s new add-on lets you quickly set up a camera to match your current view. I have been using Blender for years to create 3D models for printing, and I always struggled with the camera. I would finish modeling something I was really proud of, and then the rendering part was just miserable. Getting the […]
CCC Matcher: A free Extension for Colour Chart Matching
Blender has a lot to offer for VFX work – but falls a bit short when it comes to plate preparation and colour matching. This free extension is intended to fill that gap. Paul Schlichter writes: With CCC Matcher you can sample colour checker charts, match the colours of your HDRI and camera plate and […]
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-35
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.
Blender Jobs for August 28, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Environment Artist for Unity Based FPS 3D Low-Poly Character Modeling with Morph Targets (GLB for Android) yaz For more jobs, look here.
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