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First Look: Shape Keys in Blender Grease Pencil & 2D Rigging Test
In this video, Mumu Mundo explores the highly anticipated new feature in development for Blender Grease Pencil: Shape Keys. Testing an experimental build with a 2D Peppa Pig character rig, this walkthrough demonstrates how Grease Pencil strokes and Bézier curves interact with shape keys to create flexible 2D facial expressions (smiles, frowns, mouth phonemes) and […]
Egg Odyssey: Lunar Surface & Beer
Three astronauts uncover a mysterious symbol hidden beneath the lunar surface during a routine mission. What begins as a simple exploration quickly spirals into a cosmic mystery that could change everything.
Beginner Blender Tutorial – Color An X-Wing
Chris continues his X-Wing tutorial series. In this video I’ll teach you how to add color and detail to the surface of our x-wing. We’ll use the x-wing model we made in last week’s tutorial and cover how to use procedural textures and cool shading tricks to create a realistic surface without having to uv […]
Why I Turned My Rabbit R1 into an Offline Recorder Instead of Using OS3
Celebrating 20 Years of Open Movies
A thank you message for the community that made this possible.
Cyberpunk Katana Tutorial
Let’s practice quick prototyping and boolean modeling and create a cyberpunk inspired sword in Blender with Polygon Runway.
Blender Jobs for September 25, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Generalists and Specialists to Create Original Work For more jobs, look here.
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-39
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.
Motionographer’s 20th celebrations continue this Saturday. There’s still time to join us.
Free party tickets for Motionographer's 20th at Mamacita went fast, but general admission is still open on Dice and at the door. Motion Plus Design New York takes the stage at Roulette from 1 pm, and a few seats remain. Then the whole room moves to Deluxx Fluxx, doors at 10.
Foundry releases Mari 8.0 in open beta
Updated for Beta 2: 3D texture painting software gets new Tri-Planar Tiled and Hex Tile nodes, plus support for A/B comparisons.
Otoy releases OctaneRender 2027.1 in alpha
Updated for Alpha 3: next major version of the GPU renderer can now bake SDFs to meshes, to use as proxy geometry in simulations.
Check out Vine FX’s VFX breakdown for Alice and Steve
Watch the studio's breakdown of a blazing building, with simulated fire, smoke and particles, from the finale of the Disney+ 'wrong-com'.
Create This Simple Realistic Landscape in Blender
Yeho Studios shows how to set up landscapes in Blender. Have you ever found trouble creating nature art in Blender? Or are you struggling to create a realistic nature scene as a beginner? I understand you because I have been there before. In this tutorial, I will guide you step-by-step on how to create this […]
Adobe acquires Topaz Labs
Adobe buys pioneering developer of AI image enhancement and upscaling tools. Read our FAQs on what the deal means for CG artists.
Who Moved My Work? Tim Thompson on RevThink’s The Weekly Briefing
AI didn’t arrive yesterday. Clients didn’t wake up this morning and decide they could do more themselves, and the value of creative work didn’t change overnight. But it is easy to get comfortable with where the work has always come from, what clients have always paid for, and what studios have always been hired to... Read more »
Rigging Ormie: A Blender Character Rig Overview
Rigging Ormie is a two-part deep dive into how Level Pixel Level rigged this character for Blender. Ormie was originally built in a Maya-base pipeline. In these videos, I review the techniques and workflows I used to recreate this rig in Blender. Part 1 focuses on the body rig: Part 2 focuses on the face […]
See Image Engine’s breakdown for Avatar: The Last Airbender S2
Check out the studio's VFX breakdown for the spectacular elemental duels from Season 2 of the fantasy action-adventure series.
Blender Foundation Annual Report 2025
The 2025 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.
Your Sci-Fi Turret Looks Great. Until It Rotates from Under the Floor
A new Blender 5.2 to Unreal Engine 5.8 course connects stylized hard-surface modelling, baked masks and Blueprint controls in one playable project. Hi everyone, Neil here from 3D Tudor. A sci-fi turret is one of those assets that can look completely finished in Blender and still be nowhere near ready for a game. The model […]
Exode (short film made with Blender)
Wixie Man shares the full version of his Sci-fi short. A few months ago, I posted an article on Blendernation about a science fiction short film made with the help of Blender. The film has wrapped up its festival run and is now available on YouTube. I hope you enjoy it, and I’d love to […]