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Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.

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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Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Help needed, 3d generalist, animators, environment design, starting at north of 800$ a model 3D Environment Artist Senior 3D Artist (Generalist/Environment) [Hiring] Blender Artist: Aircraft Refinement for CAD/Catia ($200) Freelance 3D Archviz Artist [Hiring] 3d artist for support: Stylized Characters [...]

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Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.

Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.

Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.

Check out the latest features in the image-editing software, including two new adjustment layer types and updates to the generative AI tools.

Animal Logic-incorporating Netflix subsidiary becomes 'first major animation studio to support Blender's continued development'.

A historic first for the animation industry!

Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.

Ryan King Art writes: In this 6 part Blender tutorial series we will create this stylized winter forest environment.

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New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.

Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.