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First paid version of the nifty 3D sketching app for iPad is a major update, adding new 3D liquify, lighting and post effects toolsets.

Discover an efficient professional concept art workflow in Blender and Photoshop with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Crate's Unmult, Crate's Chromatic Aberration and Crate's Long Shadow streamline common tasks in VFX, motion graphics and CG work.

Get the DNEG Lead Animator's neat free creature rig, licensed for use in portfolio work, and supplied as a Maya MB scene file.

Pierrick PIcault explains some techniques used in anime videos that help exaggerate speed effects without adding a ton of work to your project. What you see is what matters. Discover how I convey speed in this stylized animation with an anime look using Blender, 3D and 2D VFX.

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Explore how Kate, a self-taught artist from Poland, uses various techniques to create a visually mesmerizing animation. INTRODUCTION Hello! My name is Kate, and I am a 3D visualiser living in Cracow, Poland. My journey with 3D started, as it did for many of you, thanks to videogames! I love games! One of the first [...]

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The Quad Maker Blender Extension is a set of very simple mesh operations designed to help 3D modelers quickly retopologize objects into clean, quad-based geometry. Inspired by Maya’s Quad Draw, Quad Maker offers Blender users a way to speed up their retopology workflow while maintaining flexibility within Blender’s existing toolset. If you have any questions [...]

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This came in hot: Blenderheads in Seattle are meeting today! (As is the Los Angeles community). Oscar Baechler writes: There's so many things to talk about this month at Seabug!!! Blender 4.3 has finally slapped geometry nodes on grease pencil, which makes for some insane animation possibilities. Plus, let's speedrun the highlights of the 2024 [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Character Animator For more jobs, look here.

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Join SouthernShotty as he walks us through all the exciting new Blender 4.3 EEVEE features! Blender 4.3 brings updates to EEVEE, its real-time render engine, making it more powerful and versatile than ever before. From improved lighting and shadow fidelity to enhanced material options and rendering capabilities, these updates are crucial for artists looking to [...]

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Check out the new features in the real-time visualization software, including improvements to software ray tracing and Artistic Visual Modes.

Blender users in Los Angeles are gathering this weekend!futurehack writes: Los Angeles Blenderheads! Blender 4.3 is scheduled to be released in November and so it's time to meet your peers, make some friends, and enjoy the glory of our favorite software package. Come to our meeting to hear about what's new with Blender, and hear [...]

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Blender Conference 2024 wrapped one week ago, hopefully we all made it past the post-bcon blues!

Set of effects plugins for video editing and compositing apps gets new AI-based motion blur filter and updates to Particle Illusion.

It's that time of the year again to dive into procedural design and let your creativity go wild!As always, you can participating by taking one of the Nodevember prompts and publishing your work wherever you feel comfortable and add the #nodevember or tag. Like last year, there's one prompt per two days, and there's no [...]

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Enjoy our selection of the top art from the Blender Artists forum this week!

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Bring your concept to life and get it ready for a 3D modeling with Grease Pencil with this new CG Cookie course. Before a concept can be realised in 3 dimensions, it must be redrawn in technical detail. In TURNAROUND, CG Cookie instructor Paul Caggegi will guide you through the steps necessary to produce a [...]

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Latest major update to the renderer adds support for 3D Gaussian Splatting and luminaires, and updates V-Ray GPU and the VFB.

New video-to-3D-scene system 'brings artists closer to producing animated films' as well as VFX with the AI online film-making platform.