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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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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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New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

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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Promising new free application provides a 'clean, distraction-free space' for sculpting characters and creatures for games and VFX work.

Open-source app converts 3D scans or sculpts to clean, low-poly, all-quad geometry. Comes with an unofficial Blender bridge plugin.

The Blender team is back in Los Angeles to present and take part at SIGGRAPH 2026.

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

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Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.

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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Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

At the Beacon Theatre, with every phone sealed shut, Madonna premiered Confessions II and reminded us of a forty-year truth: she has never simply released music. She has released visual worlds. A love letter to the greatest Motion Designer who never touched the software.

Yorkshire-based Distant Future Animation Studio has created Maritime Connected, a 90-second animated film exploring the unseen relationships between people, industries, and communities connected by the world’s oceans. Created for Lloyd’s Register Foundation’s Maritime Connected initiative, the film approaches maritime safety through human experience rather than technical explanation. Through a series of interconnected visual scenarios, it... Read more »