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The Character DNA MetaHuman add-on for Blender is now free
Base edition of Poly Hammer's Blender add-on for importing and exporting MetaHuman .dna files is now a free download.
Khronos Group sponsors free glTF importer/exporter for 3ds Max
New open-source add-ons provide a long-overdue free way to import glTF files into 3ds Max, backed by the creator of the format.
SideFX just released Houdini 22
Check out the latest features in Houdini, from a complete new 3D Gaussian Splatting toolset to major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.
Google open-sources GNM Head, its parametric human head model
Parametric model based on real-world scan data generates realistic 3D heads and facial expressions. Free Blender add-on available.
Blender 5.2 LTS is here: discover its 5 key features
Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from cloth physics in Geometry Nodes to a big change to Cycles.
Open-source material authoring software Material Maker 1.7 is out
Check out the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a new Dynamic Sky Material. Now also on Steam.
Esri releases CityEngine 2026
Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.
Abstract updates InstaLOD 2026
Check out the new features in this powerful set of geometry optimization tools for games and VFX work. Free to indie artists.
Add Wood Surface Detail Faster with 50 Decals, Brushes, and Displacement Designs
50 wood detail designs that can be used as decals, parallax surface details, real displacement, sculpt brushes, Substance Painter stencils. Hey folks, Neil here from 3D Tudor. Wooden assets are brilliant fun to build. Beams, planks, barrels, fences, bridges, cabin walls, taverns, market stalls — they show up everywhere in fantasy, RPG, and stylized environments. […]
Howler 2027 is out with new 3D rendering environment Howler 3D
Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation software, including a new physically based rendering environment.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Houdini
Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.
Blender at SIGGRAPH 2026, Los Angeles
As always, you can meet the Blender team at SIGGRAPH. Here’s an overview of what you can expect. SIGGRAPH is from Sunday, July 19 until Thursday, July 23 this year. As always, there will be a community booth, several ‘Birds of a Feather’ community gatherings and a talk of Blender’s support of OpenPBR. See the […]
Tutorial: create cliff materials in Substance 3D Designer
Discover how to create game-ready materials with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide to modern environment art workflows.
Free Download: Low-poly Rock Generator
Satendra Saraswat created a simple low-poly rock generator using Blender 5.1 geometry nodes. It has three types of rock setup. The original Blender file is freely available to download.
Nestlé S-26 Goat Milk | melt.
Chaos releases V-Ray 7.4 for Maya
Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-28
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.
Tearing Cloth with Geometry Nodes
In this video Jan van den Hemel looks at setting up the nodes for tearing cloth apart in Blender 5.2.
Zibra AI launches new real-time VFX technology ZibraGDS
New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.
Overgrown: a Feature Film Project by Blender Studio
The Blender Studio is now focusing (again) on developing a feature-length movie, and they need to reach 7,000 Blender Studio subscribers to finance it. Co-directors Hjalti Hjálmarsson and Rik Schutte set the scene of OVERGROWN in a post-human robo-apocalyptic world reclaimed by nature. As the unlikely family duo [editor’s note: unclear what this duo is, […]