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Fix Broken Assets in Blender 5
Blender 5 has changed the way assets are loaded into your scenes from the Asset Browser. By default you are going to find that everything is locked and greyed out, meaning you have no ability to change any settings and any rigs will break. These is a simple fix shown in this short video.
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Blender Lab - A Playground for New Ideas
As the demands on the reliability and stability of Blender keep increasing, the Blender Foundation found they needed a space that allows for forward thinking experimentation. The new Blender Lab provides an environment for these kinds of projects. Francesco writes: Over the years, Blender has grown and matured into a powerful and complex piece of [...]
The VFX of League of Legends Worlds 2025 (Behind the Scenes)
Calvin Serrano got to VFX supervise and produce the 3D animations for this years League of Legends Worlds 2025 Tournament. Take a look behind the scenes of these ambitious hype teasers they make with way too little time! The main challenge this time was the huge amount of shots we needed to add CG set [...]
"The Heretic", a Short Film Made in Blender
Belzunze the teaser trailer of his movie project 'The Heretic'. This is a teaser (a concept video) showing what the complete project will look like. I think it will take me two years, but here I’m showing the basic design and what it looks like graphically.
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-48
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.
Blender Jobs for November 28, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Interactive 3D medical characters, Unity or Unreal [3D Studio work, no individual] Furniture Modeling and Configuration For more jobs, look here.
You Asked, I Built It: 17 New Features for Roads & Streets in Blender [$]
What a year it’s been! The Roads Must Roll has grown into the most complete toolkit for designing streets, bridges, and intersections in Blender. And with all the new updates — from water and damage effects to vehicles, animations, and performance tools — it’s time to take a look at everything that’s been added. More [...]
Black Friday, Cyber Week and holiday 2025 deals for CG artists
Find great seasonal discounts on CG software, hardware and assets, with our list of 140+ deals available on Cyber Monday and Cyber Week.
Nekki releases Cascadeur 2025.3
Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a new viewport renderer, and initial support for quadrupeds.
Sneak peek: the new FLIP fluid solver in Insydium’s NeXus
See the neat new liquid simulation tools in the GPU-based Cinema 4D particle effects add-on, ahead of their release next month.
New Object Modifiers in Blender 5.0
Ryan King Art writes: In this video I will cover all of the new object modifiers in Blender 5.0.
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2025.3
Check out the new features in the terrain generator, including ORBX export to OctaneRender and a new Godot integration plugin.
Epic Games releases RealityScan 2.1
Check out the new features in the desktop 3D scanning software, including new Lidar and automation features. Free to indie artists.
BlenderKit release notes 3.18.0 [$]
The BlenderKit add-on 3.18.0 is a major step forward, introducing the ability to search, download, and install other add-ons directly from BlenderKit — all inside Blender. Alongside this key feature, we’ve added a host of improvements, boosted multi-window performance, and polished the overall experience. We’ve also resolved the darker thumbnail issue in Blender 5.0, added [...]
Jens Kafitz releases Mari Extension Pack 6 R3
Check out the new features in the free update to the industry-standard set of add-on tools for Foundry's 3D texture painting software.
Boris FX releases Sapphire 2026
Check out the changes to the effects plugins for compositing and video editing apps, including this new analogue film burn effect.
Human Alloy unveils The Master Collection: over 4,000 3D humans
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Realistic Pokemon animated in Blender
Jamie writes: The second episode of Pokemon Planet is out. All sculpted and animated in Blender with compositing in Davinci Resolve. This episode features the ghost and fairy Pokemon Mimikyu, along with some other creepy friends.