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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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The Blender Foundation announces its annual user survey. This survey aims to better understand: The user community demographics: age group, geography and professional background Common use cases and workflows Users’ top priorities for further improvements How people connect with the Blender project and get involved as contributors How the community spends money (Blender Development Fund […]

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See how the hard light energy constructs for the DC Universe superhero series were created, like this massive tunnel-boring machine.

Jan van den Hemel explains how to fix Merged Geometry after Voxel remeshing.

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Blender has a lot of useful modeling tools that many artists don’t even know exist. Some of them can save you a surprising amount of time, especially when working with complex shapes and detailed geometry. Stanisław writes: In my latest tutorial, I explore several tools from the free Edit Mesh Tools add-on and show how […]

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[Sponsored] Discover the winning entries in the $45,000 character design and animation contest for users of Reallusion software.

Discover how the studio recreated early 20th century California in CG for the Netflix adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic novel.

Popular 3D design tool gets a new system for building reusable asset libraries and a Curvature Analysis shader. See the other new features.

Check out the studio's CG recreation of Washington D.C. for an eye-catching aerial shot from the Apple TV action comedy.

Ryan King shows us how to create this Cute Pumpkin Carving Sculpt.

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Discover how to create a character destruction effect using UE5's Niagara toolset with The Gnomon Workshop's introductory tutorial.

See a four-minute breakdown of the effects for the sci-fi movie, including CG aliens and animals created with DD's new three-tier muscle system.

After a year and a half of work, animators at the Hungarian Centre for Ecological Research have created Life in a Drop, a 15-minute popular science short film, using Blender. Tibor Kisantal writes: Scientists at the Institute of Aquatic Ecology, part of the research centre, have long been working on 3D models of algae from […]

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Learn how to create Spider Verse style animations in Blender. Derek Flood writes: For Spider Verse, Sony developed proprietary tools to allow artists to create hand drawn line work that follows the animated characters. In this video I wanted to share how you can do the same as an independent animator using Grease Pencil and […]

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Discover what's new in 10 key CG tools from Autograph, IlluGen, LiquiGen and Red Giant to Moho, ComfyUI and Nomad Sculpt.

GPU renderer gets a new fur procedural, ACES 2 support and updates to real-time render engine Redshift Live. See what else is new.

See the studio's breakdown of its environment work for the historical drama series, including amplifying a real river into a raging torrent.