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VFX Breakdown "A World Divided"
"A World Divided" is a six episode historical drama series based on true events seamlessly integrating never before seen archival footage with engrossing fictional drama (IMDB). Our VFX breakdown for "Die Spaltung der Welt/A World Divided" is ready! All things 3D were made in Blender :)
BlenderKit 3.14.0 is here
The newest version of our huge the BlenderKit 3D asset library focuses on automatic port switching, improved compatibility with the latest Blender alphas, better brush handling, and more responsive polling intervals. Improvements ✏️ Brush Appending Improvements Resolved compatibility problems with brushes from pre-Blender 3.5, ensuring they work correctly in Blender 4.3, 4.4-alpha, and beyond. 🔌 [...]
UVPackmaster - all the goodness of the recent releases [$]
Here's an overview of the features and improvements added to UVPackmaster in the recent releases. Support for GPU accelerated packing on Macs (using the Vulkan API). New variant of the pack operation: Repack With Others. Repack all selected islands with all unselected islands which are already placed in the target box: Support for a new [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-6
Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.
Blender 4.0 - How to add an image texture
A simple tutorial to learn how to add image textures to your models. Aimed at beginners.
Line drawings in Blender: Simple Sketch Pro
See CG benchmarks for NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5090 and 5080 GPUs
Discover how NVIDIA's Blackwell GPUs performed in CG software like 3ds Max, Arnold, Blender, Maya, UE5 and V-Ray in our early tests.
Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for Blender
Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available
Review: Huion Kamvas 22 Plus pen display
The Kamvas 22 Plus is an affordable pen display for beginners and pro artists on a budget. See how it handled 3D as well as 2D workflows.
Creating a Stylized Low Poly Forest River in Blender
In this 3 part Blender tutorial series Ryan King creates this stylized low poly forest river animation.
Tutorials: Creating a Character for Games – Vol. 1 and Vol. 2
Master industry-standard workflows for sculpting and texturing AAA game characters with The Gnomon Workshop's two-part tutorial series.
Quickly Model a Door in Blender 4.2
Widhi Muttaqien shows how to quickly model a door complete with the frame, leaf and handle, using Blender 4.2.
Realistic Rural Agriculture Farm Ranch 3D Environment Assets [$]
This is a quick start Realistic agricultural farmland 3d assets and props for realistic rural environment renders. It will radically speed up concept development, freelance art look-dev or environment building. Included: A standard file - where you have to append the models to bring them in, or link then dynamically. An asset browser file - [...]
LightWave Digital previews LightWave 2025
Check out the new features due in the 3D software, including the RIPD real-time preview, a new cel shader, and updates to character rigging.
Check out the new features in the ForestPack 9.1 updates
Latest updates to the 3ds Max scattering plugin add new options to control the form of plants generated by 3D ivy generator ForestIvy.
Blender Geometry Nodes – Boats: A Procedural Approach to Shipbuilding [$]
Neil from 3D Tudor introduces his geometry node Jedi's new course - 'Blender Geometry Nodes – Boats', bringing node-powered shipbuilding straight to your screen. Why spend hours on repetitive modeling tasks when you can procedurally generate entire fleets in minutes? 'Blender Geometry Nodes – Boats' lets you fine-tune boat details—like seats and UV mapping—without redoing [...]
See five great VFX breakdowns from the 2025 V-Ray showreel
See breakdowns of five key movies, TV series, cinematics and animated shorts created in V-Ray from Chaos's latest showreel.
Short Film: The Lost Tower
Florent Rebrun created this fantastic short film in Blender. The music, a collaboration with Louis Lacoste, reinforces the Ghibli-like atmosphere. It's a fantastic production, and I'm left wanting to see more!
Behind the Scenes: Pennywise
Bennie, a self-taught 3D artist from South Africa, shares how he brought Pennywise to life using Blender, blending creativity and technical skill to craft this iconic character. INTRODUCTION Hello everyone, My name is Bennie, and I’m a self-taught 3D artist, born and raised on South African soil. I live in a country rich in history, [...]
Blender Jobs for January 31, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: (paid) 3d asset artist to model a UFO for a commercial Robot Head Modeling [#OPENFORHIRING] Blender Animator Needed for Special videos 3D Generalist Freelancer for Other Skies LTD (paid) animator to animate a UFO for a commercial Looking for Previs [...]