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Foundry releases Mari 7.5
3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.
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!).
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.3
Free grading and video editing app now supports 32K workflows on M5 Macs. Check out the other new features for VFX artists and colorists.
Blackmagic Design releases Fusion Studio 20.3
Free update to the 3D compositor improves 3D rendering of shadow, reflect and refract layers, and improves performance and stability.
Procedural Parquet Wood Floor Material
Ryan King creates this procedural parquet wood floor material in Blender.
Get standalone GPU FLIP fluid solver Storm HydroFX free in beta
Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.
Blender: new Camera Foam material
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.
CG Cookie Black Friday: 30% OFF Yearly Membership [$]
CG Cookie's biggest sale of the year is live! Get 30% OFF yearly membership, which means unlimited access to all courses, Blender tools, plus the much-loved CG Cookie global community. Our members also get direct access to our instructors and can get personalized support. Sign up now, keep this low prices forever - the offer [...]
Blender Lab - A Playground for New Ideas
As the demands on the reliability and stability of Blender keep increasing, the Blender Foundation found they needed a space that allows for forward thinking experimentation. The new Blender Lab provides an environment for these kinds of projects. Francesco writes: Over the years, Blender has grown and matured into a powerful and complex piece of [...]
The VFX of League of Legends Worlds 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Calvin Serrano got to VFX supervise and produce the 3D animations for this years League of Legends Worlds 2025 Tournament. Take a look behind the scenes of these ambitious hype teasers they make with way too little time! The main challenge this time was the huge amount of shots we needed to add CG set [...]
"The Heretic", a Short Film Made in Blender
Belzunze the teaser trailer of his movie project 'The Heretic'. This is a teaser (a concept video) showing what the complete project will look like. I think it will take me two years, but here I’m showing the basic design and what it looks like graphically.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-48
Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.
Blender Jobs for November 28, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Interactive 3D medical characters, Unity or Unreal [3D Studio work, no individual] Furniture Modeling and Configuration For more jobs, look here.
You Asked, I Built It: 17 New Features for Roads & Streets in Blender [$]
What a year it’s been! The Roads Must Roll has grown into the most complete toolkit for designing streets, bridges, and intersections in Blender. And with all the new updates — from water and damage effects to vehicles, animations, and performance tools — it’s time to take a look at everything that’s been added. More [...]
Black Friday, Cyber Week and holiday 2025 deals for CG artists
Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets. Deals available in Cyber Week include Adobe, Boris FX and Maxon.
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.3
Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a new viewport renderer, and initial support for quadrupeds.
Lofted Surface for On-Plane Brush Control Tool. 3DCoat Black Friday sale 2025 is 27 Nov. -2 Dec.
Sneak peek: the new FLIP fluid solver in Insydium’s NeXus
See the neat new liquid simulation tools in the GPU-based Cinema 4D particle effects add-on, ahead of their release next month.