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Sakura Gansha | Sijin Liu
Kangaroo Builder for Maya now supports topology transfer
Handy rig-building toolset can now warp all the blendshapes for one character to another with different topology. Free for personal use.
3D Gaussian Splats are being added to the glTF standard
Updated: new release candidate for the core glTF Gaussian Splatting Extension paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.
Arrowhead Game Studios backs the Blender Development Fund
Helldivers 2 dev becomes Blender's third new corporate sponsor in two weeks, donating €30,000/year towards the open-source 3D app.
Creating “Il Baracchino”: Italy’s First Adult Animated Series Made with Blender
Developed using Blender, the series is set in the gritty yet vibrant world of stand-up comedy.
Plastic Horse Showreel | Plastic Horse
FrameRef is a neat new reference board for 3D and concept work
Promising GPU-accelerated tool for organizing your visual reference material even lets you drag and drop videos directly from YouTube.
A Director’s Study in AI Cinematic Design | 1984 London / Chris Jarrett
See the 2026 Blender development roadmap
Check out the major features now in development for the open-source 3D software and due for release in Blender 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and beyond.
A Tiny Stop-Motion World with a Big New Year’s Heart for the Dutch State Lottery
Dutch lottery brand Staatsloterij returns with its annual New Year’s campaign, this year titled “Give each other some luck," produced in collaboration with British animation studio Blinkink.
ADO | Anna Chocholi
BlendShape Monitor for Maya helps fix your messy character rigs
Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.
MetaTailor 2.5 is out with new bridge plugins to Unity and UE5
Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.
Splitting a Selection of Edge-Rings
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-5
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.
Quick Tip: Polygroups & Pose Object Selection
Tutorial: Animating Characters for Feature Films
Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.