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Free Add-on: MIDI To Visuals
M2V MIDI To Visuals is a Blender extension that generates animated 3D visualizations from MIDI files. Overview MIDI to Visuals converts MIDI files into synchronized 3D animations, mapping musical notes and instruments into dynamic visual sequences. Features Multiple visualization types: BarGraph - Creates one cube per note, animated in sync with the music Notes Strip [...]
NVIDIA open-sources PhysX’s GPU simulation code
Real-time physics framework used in game engines and offline simulation tools for 3ds Max and Maya is now fully open-source.
Hair Cinematic Tool 2.0 simplifies hair shading in Unreal Engine 5
Argentum Studio's in-house tool simplifies the process of lighting and rendering hair and fur in Unreal Engine 5.5. Free for a month.
Isometric Roman House Tutorial
polygonrunway writes: Let’s model and render out a cool isometric Roman style architecture building in Blender.
Another depth map demo for Blender using STL export option.
Best Laptops for Blender in 2025
Paul Caggegi recently posted this on the CG Cookie blog: If you're just starting out, or you're looking to upgrade your laptop's hardware for using Blender on-the-go, you've no doubt googled "will my laptop run Blender?" You don't just mean "will Blender boot up and function?" you mean "will I be able to take my [...]
Tutorial: Creature Animation for Games
Discover how to animate run cycles, combat and death moves in Maya with The Gnomon Workshop's beginner-friendly tutorial.
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Free Geometry Nodes Assets - Tools
Marco writes: Tools is a free assets pack containing free Geometry Nodes setups that can be used for generating snow on top of objects, simulate particles bouncing on meshes, simulate cloth...
Little known feature of Boolean Modifier to help create manifold (solid) objects in Blender
New EEVEE+Cycles material: Hobby Mat
Procedural Cracks with Geometry Nodes
Duncan Rudd writes: Tear apart any ground terrain using a set of input curves. Blender 4.3 Geometry Nodes tutorial.
Blender Jobs for April 18, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Bardel Entertainment is looking for a Blender CG Generalist Zoic Studios | BC - Digital Matte Painter - Stop Motion VFX Project Milky Tea Studios | Senior VFX Artist (Unity) - Remote Golf Daddy | 3D Artist Paid job, Gun [...]
LightWave Digital releases LightWave 2025
Check out the new features in the 3D software, including viewport path tracing, a new Toon Filter, and new rigging and animation tools.
Blender 4.0 – How To Add an Image Texture
Jamie writes: Adding an image to a model should be pretty simple, right? And yet... 5 clicks later, you're in a node spaghetti nightmare. This quick tutorial shows you step by step exactly how to add textures in Blender. And you get this monster model for free! Super chill, beginner-friendly - nothing complicated 🙃
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-16
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.
Get the free version of ZibraVDB for Unreal Engine and Houdini
Updated: free version of the real-time volumetric effects tool for games and virtual production is now available for Houdini as well as Unreal Engine.
Reinforcing the Blender Trademark Guidelines
Blender Foundation now offers a more detailed trademark policy for the Blender brand.
See JangaFX’s first demo of IlluGen, its app for in-game VFX
Check out the feature set of the much-anticipated tool for creating VFX assets for games, its workflow, its release date, and its likely price.