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Check out the latest features in Houdini, from a complete new 3D Gaussian Splatting toolset to major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.

Parametric model based on real-world scan data generates realistic 3D heads and expressions. Blender and 3ds Max add-ons available.

Blender 5.2 LTS brings node-powered physics, remote access to asset libraries, major rendering advancements and more with 2 years of LTS updates.

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from cloth physics in Geometry Nodes to a big change to Cycles.

Check out the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a new Dynamic Sky Material. Now also on Steam.

The conversation could have been about tools, pipelines, or AI. Instead it kept returning to something older and harder to automate: the compulsion to make. Tim Thompson talks with director Onur Senturk at OFFF Barcelona 2026.

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.

Check out the new features in this powerful set of geometry optimization tools for games and VFX work. Free to indie artists.

50 wood detail designs that can be used as decals, parallax surface details, real displacement, sculpt brushes, Substance Painter stencils. Hey folks, Neil here from 3D Tudor. Wooden assets are brilliant fun to build. Beams, planks, barrels, fences, bridges, cabin walls, taverns, market stalls — they show up everywhere in fantasy, RPG, and stylized environments. […]

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Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation software, including a new physically based rendering environment.

Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.

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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Discover how to create game-ready materials with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide to modern environment art workflows.

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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Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

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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