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The projects to keep an eye on in 2025!

Now we can convert Maya's AiStandardSurface shaders to Blender's Principled BSDF using this free addon that Robert Rioux developed with ChatGTP (thanks to Tinkerboi for the finishing touches).

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Lane Wallace writes: The flower was sculpted in Blender, and the benday dots were created using a simple NPR shader node setup that utilizes a voronoi texture with zero randomness.

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Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Learn the basics of geo nodes in blender with this cool liquid effect example, focusing on how to get objects to follow and orient along a curve.

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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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Updated: Version 2.6 of the facial and full-body rig builder for games, animation and VFX characters comes with this free bird rig.

Free, open-source online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats can now play back sequences of PLY files.

Check out the new features in the virtual reality modeling software, including improvements to file export and primitives workflow.

See the specs of the Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs, and how they stack up in CG apps like D5 Render and DaVinci Resolve.

Laubwerk's 3D plant models are now available to Cinema 4D users with Maxon One subscriptions, but are no longer for sale online.

Promising project management tool for VFX, animation and games is intuitive enough for non-TDs, but robust enough for bigger projects.

Pulze's handy add-on streamlines the process of building and updating complex Photoshop files from V-Ray or Corona renders.

Create a creature, environment and FX simulation entirely in Houdini with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly new tutorial.

Get Scale XYZ's Pirate Stilt Village Island Modular Pack of 3D buildings, props and trees for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace.

Update to the match-moving software 'completely overhauls' the scene-reconstruction toolset. Check out its new AI-powered features.

Full version of Escape Motions' iPad and iPhone app for painting images using particle brushes is now free, as is mandala-creation app Inspirit.

Check out the new features in the topology transfer tools for creating digital doubles and blendshapes from 3D scans of actors.

Check out the latest features in the open-source release of DreamWorks' renderer, used on movies like The Wild Robot.