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Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX, used on SideFX's Project Elderwood demo.

Innovative Maya-compatible character animation software gets new Sequencer editor and automatic secondary dynamics.

dvicemuse writes: Hair physics in the new blender hair system is no longer available (because it's still in development). This video shows how to use the new system easily as a workaround. It implements both the old particle system and the new geometry node system, and teaches you how to switch between two different resolvers. [...]

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New tech demo on creating natural environments for games in Houdini and Unreal Engine includes tools to generate procedural cliffs and ruins.

Check out the new features in the renderer, including an Inference imager for applying machine learning models to stylize output.

Check out the new features in the compositing, finishing and effects software, including better handling of OpenFX plugins.

The Blender team will attend SIGGRAPH 2025 in Vancouver, and participate in a number of activities.

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: Environment Artist - Blender and Unreal Engine Closed Help Needed: Kirby 3D Model – Eye Animation for Unreal Engine 3D Generalist - Blender - Unreal Engine /!\ CANADA ONLY /!\: Hard Edge 3D Modeler for both real-time mobile VR and [...]

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Struggling to make your renders look cinematic? This free mini-course by Gleb Alexandrov will teach you how to take your raw render and turn it into a visually striking final image using pro color grading techniques in the Render Raw add-on.

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See early mock-ups of how the open-source 3D software's interface is being reworked for new iOS - and later, Android - ports.

Check out this awesome fluid sim by BlindIllusionist! I wanted to achieve a simulation like this for a long time and it took me a while to figure it out. But I think I was able to achieve a good effect with Blender and Flip Fluids, trying to replicate this “Houdini-style” simulation of the ship [...]

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Create a game combat sequence with NetherRealm Studios' Brad Faucheux's animation masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

Blender 4.5 has landed and it's packed with new nodes, changes to existing nodes and a lot of other geometry node improvements. Harry comments: "This is a big one. I've never animated so many nodes in my life." And he's right! I'm impressed by the amount of motion video work that went into this one, [...]

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Okay, I don't tend to publish a lot of donut videos here as the Blenderverse is flooded with them, but this one by ToothKit is next level! In this video, I show you my donut journey in these days. From Day 1 to Day 1000, hope I make it worthly. The FREE donut file you [...]

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Let’s model and texture an optimized game-ready assets with a wild west theme in Blender!

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Wide-ranging update to the architectural renderer adds AI PBR material generation, plus new scene layout, camera and lighting tools.