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There's a new - free - UV Mapping Addon for Blender: Mio 3 UV. Luis Roach shows how to use it. For those of you working with 3D modeling in Blender, UV unwrapping can sometimes be a tedious task, especially when trying to straighten UV islands and maintain hard edges. I just released a new [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2024-10-08 Sequencer meeting notes 2024-10-08 Compositor meeting notes 2024-10-17 Core Meeting 2024-10-17 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2024-10-17 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting New Features and Changes Please check out the git logs on projects.blender.org to see what changed last week. Weekly Reports [...]

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Check out the new features in the 3D clothing design software, including improvements to its real-time simulation toolset.

Let’s use Rigify addon and it’s armatures as template to easily create fully rigged skeleton hand in Blender.

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Read our FAQs on the pricing and licensing changes to the popular online library of 3D scans for games, VFX and visualization work.

New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

The Bob Ross of Blender is back and he's teaching us to build a house, and to relax at the same time ;-) The Joy of Blender writes: In this Blender tutorial for beginners, we'll dive into everything you need to a make fun little stylized house in Blender: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Geometry Nodes, Procedural [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I need help with several projects, to much work :D For more jobs, look here.

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Currently free in beta: new web-based platform is geared towards VFX and post-production artists looking to upscale shots to 4K or 8K.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Senior 3D Artist / Animator at Sozo Labs For more jobs, look here.

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Branch Education shares another educational video created in Blender. Graphics Cards can run some of the most incredible video games, but how many calculations do they perform every single second? Well, some of the most advanced graphics perform 36 Trillion calculations or more every single second. But how can a single device manage these tens [...]

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Ucupaint is a free Blender addon to manage texture layers for the Eevee and Cycles renderers. It lets you stack images, textures, and vertex colors into layers with mask and baking support. Key features are: Stack images, vertex attributes, generated textures, or many other types into layers and masks. All Ucupaint nodes are contained inside [...]

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Compositing Academy's neat free VFX tool offers a simple way to create flows of energy and light, or art direct stock FX elements.

Let's model! In this course, CG Cookie is going to talk about the foundational, most important tools and concepts that you’ll need throughout your modeling journey, whether you’re going into games, animation, visual effects, industrial design, architecture, or any field of computer graphics. Model basic objects with ease and have a good idea of how [...]

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In this quick Blender tip, Kenan Proffitt goes over the nodes set up you need in order to have full control over scaling the radius of your geo nodes curve object in the blender viewport. There are just a few steps needed to achieve this, and once you know them you can unlock many powerful [...]

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Create a portfolio-worthy 3D character with Naughty Dog Senior Character Artist Colleen Larson's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Jesse Miettinen's versatile Geometry Nodes set-ups generate procedural 3D buildings, trees, ivy - and even car animation rigs - inside Blender.

The Long Term Support versions of Blender 3.6 and 4.2 have received updates. These 'LTS' releases are for users who don't need the latest features and are instead looking for a reliable and stable Blender environment. They only receive critical fixes throughout a 2-year time span. Any critical fix that is applied to the latest [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Valiant Games | 3D Stylized Clothing Artist - Celebrity Founded Match 3 Game For more jobs, look here.

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This shader node by SouthernShotty will convert existing textures into a retro pixel art version. We'll guide you through the entire process, starting with the basics of selecting the right textures and preparing them for pixelation. Learn how to use Blender’s powerful modifiers and shaders to convert high-resolution images into crisp, eye-catching pixel art that [...]

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