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Best of Blender Artists: 2025-50
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.
Blender Jobs for December 12, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I need Build a low-poly 3D version of a section of map coordinates set in Blender 5.0 using rea 3D Character Artist — Animated AI Companion Dog I need a model of a wristwatch that would also fit on a [...]
Grease Pencil New Features
Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease [...]
Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 8 December 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Manual & UI Translations Cleanup: Removal of Inactive, Empty Translations Modules & Projects 2025-12-02 User Interface Meeting 2025-12-02 XR Meeting 2025-12-02 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-12-04 Core Module Meeting 2025-12-04 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-12-04 Platforms & Builds module meeting 2025-12-08 Viewport & EEVEE module [...]
Generate Minecraft Maps in Blender
In this tutorial you'll learn how to generate Minecraft-like worlds inside of Blender using a free add-on. Get the Minecraft Generator here.
Create Stylized Pine Trees Using Blender 5 new Array Modifiers and Grease Pencil
Thanks to Blender 5.0's new Array Modifier, Dad's Castle shares a different approach to creating stylized pine trees using grease pencil brushes and the free “Grease Pencil to Curves” Blender extension. It’s easy to do, requiring no artistic skills in grease pencil. Enjoy and have a great day!
A Journey through PAPERWORLD
Take a quiet tour around a wonderful world with Viral Chaudhari's Paperworld. A project to emulate paper craft virtually in 3D. I wanted the train to run naturally. In spite of animating the whole train, I went through some physics simulation test on train to run on tracks. It worked well. Rendered through Cycles Engine. [...]
Edit Videos at Lightning Speed with Blender's VSE
Blender is the fastest tool to edit videos, especially if your editing requires a lot of cutting and moving strips. Mumu Mundo writes: For some time now, I've been using Blender's VSE (Video Sequence Editor) for all my YouTube tutorials, and in this video, I'll show you my setup and all the tricks I've learned [...]
Why Most Blender Rigs Fail in Production (and how to fix it)
What makes a good rig? And what are the requirements to make production ready rigs in Blender? In this video Vlad, Technical Director at TOAnimate, teaches 4 principles to help you make professional quality rigs, and how to avoid common mistakes. Following these principles will not only improve your rigging workflow, but it will also [...]
Create Liquid Glass Molecules with Volume Grid Nodes in Blender 5.0
3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Create a stunning liquid-glass molecular effect with inner structure and multi-materials using the new Volume Grid Nodes in Blender 5.0. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to form smooth, reflective connections and organic structures procedurally. Perfect for motion graphics, abstract visuals, and futuristic design renders. Happy Noding ... :)
Blender Jobs for December 5, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Low-Poly Layered Fantasy City (Vertical Cutaway Blockout) — $150 Lead 3D Generalist (Blender) – Animation & Pipeline Builder Senior 2D Gaming Artist I need someone who can write script and code to add additional new feature to an existing addon [...]
EEVEE Realism Demo Reel - Blender 5.0, Vulkan
Gleb Alexandrov shares an incredibly polished EEVEE reel. EEVEE in Blender 5.0 looks unbelievable: experience the demo reel from the research materials for our ‘EEVEE Realistic Lighting & Rendering course’ (which is coming very soon!).
Procedural Parquet Wood Floor Material
Ryan King creates this procedural parquet wood floor material in Blender.
Fix Broken Assets in Blender 5
Blender 5 has changed the way assets are loaded into your scenes from the Asset Browser. By default you are going to find that everything is locked and greyed out, meaning you have no ability to change any settings and any rigs will break. These is a simple fix shown in this short video.
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Blender Lab - A Playground for New Ideas
As the demands on the reliability and stability of Blender keep increasing, the Blender Foundation found they needed a space that allows for forward thinking experimentation. The new Blender Lab provides an environment for these kinds of projects. Francesco writes: Over the years, Blender has grown and matured into a powerful and complex piece of [...]
The VFX of League of Legends Worlds 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Calvin Serrano got to VFX supervise and produce the 3D animations for this years League of Legends Worlds 2025 Tournament. Take a look behind the scenes of these ambitious hype teasers they make with way too little time! The main challenge this time was the huge amount of shots we needed to add CG set [...]
"The Heretic", a Short Film Made in Blender
Belzunze the teaser trailer of his movie project 'The Heretic'. This is a teaser (a concept video) showing what the complete project will look like. I think it will take me two years, but here I’m showing the basic design and what it looks like graphically.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-48
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.
Blender Jobs for November 28, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Interactive 3D medical characters, Unity or Unreal [3D Studio work, no individual] Furniture Modeling and Configuration For more jobs, look here.
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