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First formal USD spec marks a step towards making USD an ISO-ratified cross-industry standard. See what it means for CG software developers.

In this geometry nodes tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a 🔥🔥BLAZING🔥🔥 text animation with Blender 5.0’s new volume nodes. Let's light it up!

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New 72GB edition of the RTX PRO 5000 increases memory capacity for GPU rendering and simulation. Check out its specs and street price.

Michael Bridges breaks down Blender's asset importing system, showing you exactly when to use Link, Append, and Pack. I'll help you avoid the two most common asset nightmares: broken update propagation and accidental global overrides. Have you ever linked assets perfectly, made updates to the source file, but nothing changed in your scene? Or worse, [...]

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ProductionCrate's free After Effects plugin adds beautiful Interstellar-inspired black holes to your VFX and motion graphics projects.

Michael Bridges walks you through the 10 essential factors for choosing the perfect GPU for your Blender workflow, from physical fit and VRAM needs to power requirements and future-proofing. By the end, you'll know exactly which GPU matches your budget and workflow without overspending. Have you ever wondered why your friend's cheaper GPU renders faster [...]

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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. This week's list is longer than usual as the yearly 10 Cubes Challenge is running, and I decided to keep those entries in as well.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Environment Artist Portfolio Review – Disabled 3D Animator (Indie Animated Series HEROES For more jobs, look here.

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New CUDA-based GPU solver makes smoke and fire simulation in the 3ds Max effects plugin '2-5x' faster than on the CPU.

Unlock full control over EEVEE’s indirect lighting! In this tutorial, Gleb Alexandrov reveals a simple yet powerful workaround to extract and control the intensity of ray traced bounced light in Blender’s EEVEE render engine – a control that doesn’t exist in the official settings.

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Games Environment Artist Marco Maria Rossi's modular Medieval Village asset pack is available for free until the end of the year.

Latest update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds the option to choose new third-party AI models for Generative Fill.

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Happy holidays and a great start into the new year! The next Weekly Updates will be posted on January 5th, 2026 Modules & Projects 2025-12-08 Grease Pencil Module Meeting 2025-12-09 Render & Cycles Meeting 2025-12-09 Sequencer meeting 2025-12-09 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2025-12-09 Sculpt, [...]

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Luciano writes: I wanted to share with you guys this old old animation that a couple of weeks ago I decided to give a hand of polish in every aspect from animation, to rigging, to shading, lighting and comp, I picked it up with blender 5.0.1 did all that and rendered it in eevee. The [...]

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In this Blender beginner sculpting tutorial, Ryan King will teach you the basics of sculpting, while sculpting this cute creature character sculpt. Free project files on Gumroad

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Gleb Alexandrov writes: We’ve just released our new course! 🔥 EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering. It’s for those who want to produce stunningly realistic lighting right up there with Cycles and other path-tracing engines in Blender 5.x – at a fraction of the render time.

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Check out the latest features in the natural media painting software, including Gradient Maps and updates to the new Bristle Brushes.

See how NVIDIA's top-of-the-range Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs performed in real-world tests in popular DCC applications.

In a race against time to reach the first space cruiser, which has been hijacked, the crew of the patrol ship Argos are intercepted by a military unit with attack robots determined to eliminate them. With their skill and cleverness, the Argos crew will do all they can to shake off their pursuers and continue [...]

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New release removes all license restrictions from the Maya rigging toolkit - but update before 1 March 2026 if you're using an older version.