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Short Film: To the Future
Blender artist Max Bedulenko excels in creating highly detailed, sometimes dystopian environments. His short film 'To the Future' definitely has Ian Hubert vibes - I love the atmosphere and sound design.
How To Make Your Own Custom HDRI Maps in Blender
Genode writes: I love Blender... ...and I love the way it uses HDRIs for lighting, but then they all do that now. I remember when I saw the first animation done with an HDRI lighting it. It was the Holy Grail of lighting, and at the time it all looked a bit complicated. how do [...]
Crash Bandicoot Fan-video
Anas took about a week to re-create some youth nostalgia: Crash Bandicoot! Check out this video that includes a breakdown of the entire project.
Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 20.0 in beta
Discover key features for VFX artists and colorists in this major update to the free grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.
How to Make a Marble Run Animation
In this 2 part Blender tutorial Ryan King creates this marble run rigid body physics animation. Final Marble Run Animation Tutorial
Maxon’s free Cineware for Unreal now supports character animation
Big update to the free link plugin makes it possible to transfer rigged and animated characters from Cinema 4D to Unreal Engine 5.5.
Full Tutorial: Create Actual Life In Blender!
Michael Campbell from 3D Illusions creates artificial life in Blender using Geometry Nodes and Physics simulations. Discover the ultimate Blender tutorial for bringing creations to life so they can act completely autonomously! Learn step-by-step how to use: Geometry Nodes - to design intricate, procedural models. Physics Simulations - for realistic animations and movement Shaders - [...]
What if You Alpha Brush Texture Is Square or It’s Blurry?
What if you Alpha Brush is square? And if the resolution is too low? In this video, Jan van den Hemel looks at solutions to those common issues when using height maps as sculpting brushes in Blender, specifically with Hard Surface Sculpting.
Maxon releases Red Giant 2024.4 and Universe 2025.3
Updates to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps extend support for DaVinci Resolve, but end support for Vegas Pro.
Blender Jobs for April 4, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking for an artist/team of voiceover artist to create sound for a low budget animated short film Finite Games Studio | 3D Game Environment Artist (Concept to Final) Side | 3D Environment Artist - Talent Pool [PAID JOB] Blender Animator [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-14
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.
Why Is My Render Pink!?
Ever hit the render button in Blender and your whole scene turns bright pink? Yeah… been there. Sometimes it’s just one object. Sometimes it’s everything! In this video, Jamie walks you through what’s going on and how to fix it. He'll also show you a couple of simple things you can do so it doesn’t [...]
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.1 with AI-based Inbetweening
Innovative animation app gets new AI system for generating realistic motion connecting two poses. Check out the other new features.
Maxon releases Redshift 2025.4
Big update to the renderer adds OpenPBR support. See the other new features for 3ds Max, Blender, Cinema 4D, Houdini and Maya users.
Maxon releases Cinema 4D 2025.2
3D animation and motion graphics app gets integrated Spline Modifiers and updates to particle simulation. Liquid simulation 'coming soon'.
Model The Sword In The Stone In Blender
Quentin Steinke writes: Learn how to model and sculpt the Sword in the Stone in Blender! This tutorial covers blockout, sculpting techniques (Remesh, Dyntopo, various brushes), and modeling the sword. Get the final .blend file for FREE on Ko-fi. Ask questions in the comments!
Maxon releases ZBrush 2025.2
Check out the changes to the digital sculpting tool, including updates to poly modeling system ZModeler and new Redshift materials.
Learn Rigging in 2025 (Free Course announcement) [promoted]
Todor Nikolov announces CG Dive's new in-depth rigging training that's not a chopped down version of the paid one! If you clicked on this article, I'll assume you're interested in learning rigging in 2025. :) Perfect! I’m releasing a free course called Rigging Isn’t Scary that will help you do exactly that. A Proper Course [...]
Maxon adds ZModeler and UV Master to ZBrush for iPad 2025.3
Significant update to the new iPad edition of the digital sculpting app adds long-awaited poly modeling and UV unwrapping toolsets.
Adobe releases After Effects 25.2
Check out the new features in the compositing app, including High Performance Preview Playback and updates to 3D workflows.