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Wacom offers a a free 4-week workshop to rediscover the joy of messy, expressive creation in a 3D world. Isaac Gicheha writes: For many 2D artists, the leap into 3D can feel like stepping into a labyrinth of technical hurdles and rigid geometry. But what if 3D wasn’t about perfection? What if it was about […]

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Check out the new features in the digital sculpting software and its iPad edition, including support for ARM processors on Windows.

Acclaimed Visual Effects and Creative Director, Doug Appleton, joins award-winning New York design studio, BigStar, bringing the kind of creative depth and artistic leadership that will push the studio’s work, and its people, further than ever.

USD-based, responsive-design-friendly motion graphics and VFX tool is publicly available again - and is free to individual artists.

Corridor Crew posted a great overview of Gaussian Splats – the (relatively) new 3D scanning technology that results in very realistic scenes that include features like reflections and translucency.  

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Compositing and motion graphics software gets AI-powered Object Matte tool to isolate moving subjects in video with one click.

Real-time visualization software gets new tools for matching 3D models to backplates, light linking system, more camera and lens properties.

Latest major update to the material authoring software adds new 3D Shape Splatter node, SDF shape creation tools, OpenPBR support.

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-04-08 User Interface Meeting 2026-04-09 Compositor Module Meeting 2026-04-10 Project Updates meeting 2026-04-13 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes […]

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See the strengths and limitations of the new V-Ray for Blender Community Edition, and how it compares to other pro renderers.

Blender 5.1.1 Release Candidate is now available for download, addressing around 70 issues found in the initial release. If you experienced issues in Blender 5.1.0, please give it a try.

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Path guiding library used in Blender, V-Ray and Disney's Hyperion renderer becomes open standards body's latest Sandbox project.