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Open-source Maya 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'.

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.

Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".

Fred Comal re-created the famous LoFi girl in Blender and shares some insights on the creation process and it's challenges. Perhaps by some “chance” YouTube algorithm, I stumbled upon this LoFi Girl video, whose visual style I really liked. So, as a personal test, I wanted to see if I could recreate it. It was [...]

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Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.

Jason van Gumster writes: The second-ever official BCON in North America is coming to Austin, Texas on April 13th-14th! Two years ago, we hosted BCON LA and by all accounts it was an incredible event to attend. We're aiming to do it again... perhaps even better. And we want you there! Of course, the cornerstone [...]

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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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Senior Animator (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Solve these non manifold edges on my stl Hiring 3D Clothing Artists – Roblox UGC AAA Game Ad - 3D tracking and asset placement Closed Artist redisidence in an math Lab at Sorbonne (Paris) Concept [...]

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Dell becomes the first major PC manufacturer to back development of the open-source 3D software, contributing €30,000/year.

Michel Anders writes: Hi everybody, as some of you might know, I more or less stopped all my commercial work on Blender add-ons, but that doesn´t mean I stopped caring about Blender. So I started working on a video series on Blender add-on developments for beginners. It is completely free, has a GitHub repository with [...]

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Thinkinetic's destruction plugin now lets users update the geometry or shatter pattern of the object being broken after a sim has been run.

Check out the promising new GPU-accelerated sparse liquid solver from Theory Accelerated, creator of the popular Axiom fluid solver.

Now production-ready: neat new tool creates VFX-quality fluid simulations for export to CG software in USD or Alembic format.