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Get free brushes for detailing characters, clothing, machines and natural environments from the popular Blender asset library.

Get stock VFX footage of real-world flamethrowers as 5K 96fps RED files or pre-keyed 4K ProRes footage. Normally sold for over $200.

See the key specs for the high-end APUs, and what we know about their likely price and performance in CG apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Ryan King Art writes: In this Blender tutorial I will show you how to do 3d modeling for beginners.

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AI tech used to boost frame rates in games and CG software gets second-gen Super Resolution and 6X Dynamic Multi Frame Generation.

Hinge Extrude is a free Blender extension that lets you extrude faces around an active edge in just a couple of clicks, eliminating a clunky multi step process. Johnny Matthews writes: In this Blender tutorial, I introduce Hinge Extrude, a free Blender extension I built to make edge based extrusion fast, clean, and intuitive for [...]

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In the latest episode of Blenderheads, we're witnessing a significant change in the Blender infrastructure: so far, the project has always hosted its own server farm but the effort in maintaining it is distracting from the core focus and they're considering moving to cloud-based servers.

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Popular free CG benchmark now supports Apple M4 and M5 processors, AMD 9000 series GPUs and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

Update to the veteran figure-posing software streamlines materials and environment workflow, but removes the Cloth Room and macOS edition.

If you use Blender often, you know how repetitive it can be to merge vertices. Every time you press the shortcut M, Blender asks which type of merge you want — At Center, At Last, At First, By Distance, etc. Now there’s a simple add-on that eliminates that extra step. pacogarcia writes: With this new [...]

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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.

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A happy new year from the new Blender Foundation board!

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Need a Blender VSE script to instantly mass-crop PNG renders, removing the alpha region (Solved) Senior Environment Concept Artist (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Senior Character Concept Artist (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Need 3D Modeler(s) for unannounced project Lego style cat - rigged [...]

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Games Environment Artist Rasmus Bagner's Ancient Temple Ruins UE5 asset pack includes building parts, 3D trees and 3D plants.

VERG writes: Bentley is willing to make VUE and PlantFactory open source! Bentley is now looking for community feedback to ensure that there is enough interest in open sourcing the apps. Here's a link to the full announcement by Daniel Seebacher over at blenderartist.org

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Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.