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Miniature Medieval Crowds in Action: 3D Prop Animation with Blender, iClone, and ActorCore [$, promoted]
Discover how Florian Salvesberger, a Vienna-based concept artist and 3D designer, brings medieval scenes to life using Blender, iClone, and ActorCore for seamless 3D prop animation. Hi, my name is Florian Salvesberger. I’m a concept artist, 3D designer, and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. My focus is on developing concept artworks for characters, set [...]
FREE SIMPLE-ALIGN Blender addon update
Satisfying Loop Tutorial
Let's use the animation curves graph to quickly create a flashy loading animation in Blender.
iCity 1.5 generates procedural 3D cities inside Blender
Plan out city layouts and have this neat tool populate them with 3D buildings. Check out the updates to road generation in the 1.5 release.
Get 330 free kitbash assets for post-apocalyptic environments
Download free assets from Oleg Ushenok's incredible new kitbash asset pack. FBX format, with PBR textures, for commercial use.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2025.5
Check out the latest features in Maxon's suite of motion graphics and VFX plugins for compositing and video editing apps.
ArchViz Reel: ZORE Studio
Gorgeous visuals in this reel by the Slovak-based Blender ZORE studio. Welcome to our collection of the most stunning archviz videos we've created up to 2025! Using Blender and the powerful Octane Engine, we bring architectural designs to life with realistic renderings and cinematic visuals. Our workflow combines Blender's versatility with Octane's breathtaking realism, allowing [...]
Sci-Fi Lunar Lander (Tutorial Series)
In this 5 part Blender tutorial series Ryan King creates this Sci-Fi Lunar Lander. https://youtu.be/IbOcR7UZp0U?si=4u2ayS96GX5tNStI
Tutorial: Creating a Sci-Fi Sequence using Houdini Solaris
Master lighting and layout workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's comprehensive guide to Houdini's Solaris toolset.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-25
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.
Project Acheron - Spider-Verse inspired workflow
The Class Creatives team recently shared this detailed Behind the Scenes post on the Blender Artists forum. I thought it was an interesting enough read to republish it here. We have been working on project Acheron for a few years, and we wanted to share our progress and final renders with the community. Our goal was to [...]
Breakdown: Marina Apartments
Jonathan Josenhans from the German Architectural Visualization studio edelVIZ shares a quick buildup of one of their recent projects. I can finally show you one project we completed last year. This is acually our first video we ever did in blender - some things are a bit janky, but overall I am really happy about [...]
Blender Jobs for June 20, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking for someone to create some low poly cartoonish clothing asset for my character I'm looking for an artist to make me a Thumbnail for YouTube Vertpaint Studios | Concept Artist Stealth Startup | 3D Artist Intern Pizza Party Productions [...]
Open 3D Foundation releases O3DE 25.05
Check out the changes to the open-source game engine, including updates to multi-GPU rendering, cinematics editing and XR workflow.
Free Edge Tracing Toolkit for OctaneRender and Blender
If you're using OctaneRender in Blender and need stylized outlines or toon-style edge tracing (but also toon-shading!), this free toolkit by Lino Grandi might be for you. Developed specifically for Octane, the addon offers a complete edge rendering workflow using Geometry Nodes and vertex groups. It includes a ready-to-go material, customizable thickness, and AOV/Compositor setups [...]
VFX breakdown: Netflix's The Snow sister
Enjoy seeing how the VFX in The Snow Sister were created. As always, the best VFX are the ones you can't spot!
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.5
Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including support for rendering USDZ files, and support for point clouds in Blender.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.3 with new liquid simulation system
3D animation and motion graphics app gets liquid simulation toolset, plus support for UDIMs and texel density. See all the new features.
Separate shaders in AI 3d generated models
Yoji shows how to prepare generated models for proper texturing in tools like Substance Painter.
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.0 and RealityScan Mobile 1.7
Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning tool and the Android and iOS photogrammetry apps, all of them free to indie artists.