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Popular free CG benchmark now supports Apple M4 and M5 processors, AMD 9000 series GPUs and NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.

Update to the veteran figure-posing software streamlines materials and environment workflow, but removes the Cloth Room and macOS edition.

If you use Blender often, you know how repetitive it can be to merge vertices. Every time you press the shortcut M, Blender asks which type of merge you want — At Center, At Last, At First, By Distance, etc. Now there’s a simple add-on that eliminates that extra step. pacogarcia writes: With this new [...]

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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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A happy new year from the new Blender Foundation board!

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Need a Blender VSE script to instantly mass-crop PNG renders, removing the alpha region (Solved) Senior Environment Concept Artist (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Senior Character Concept Artist (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Need 3D Modeler(s) for unannounced project Lego style cat - rigged [...]

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Games Environment Artist Rasmus Bagner's Ancient Temple Ruins UE5 asset pack includes building parts, 3D trees and 3D plants.

VERG writes: Bentley is willing to make VUE and PlantFactory open source! Bentley is now looking for community feedback to ensure that there is enough interest in open sourcing the apps. Here's a link to the full announcement by Daniel Seebacher over at blenderartist.org

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Check out the new features in the open-source release of the production renderer used on movies like The Bad Guys 2.

Nicholas Ndlovu shares a cool timelapse of some food modeling in Blender.

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Blender 5.0.1 is out adds fixes for 132 issues found in the previous release. If you’re on 5.0.0, it’s highly recommended to update.

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yogyog writes: I don't know why I didn't post this straight away #, but here it is.... should be useful for a lot of Blender animators. Fast Cutting is Good Actually! Here's 3 ways to fast cut in Blender 0:58 Keyframing the camera 1:34 Camera Markers 2:27 Enter the Video Sequence Editor

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Legal obstacles to open-sourcing the environment and plant-creation tools have been cleared - but email Bentley Systems to make it happen.

Andrew_D offers discounts on his addons Extreme Pbr Nexus, Hdri Maker, Cyber Holograms and Bmesh Clean Add-On. Hi everyone 👋 I just wanted to share that my Holiday Sale is now live, with 40% OFF on all my Blender add-ons. The tools are designed to help artists improve their workflow and explore more creative control [...]

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First 2025 update to the high-end matchmoving app adds features for solving piggyback cameras, and a new Blender export script.

Sick of terrains that look brilliant… right up until render time? 3D Tudor's Blender + Gaea masterclass is built to fix that. I have released a new course: Blender and Gaea Masterclass – Procedural Ice World. It is an end-to-end workflow that takes you from terrain generation in Gaea to a finished, cinematic hero render [...]

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King Art shows the creation process of how I created this cozy winter cocoa artwork in Blender. Artwork on Blender Artists

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Check out the latest changes to the matchmoving sofware, including improvements to lens distortion. Perpetual licenses available again.

Marques Brownlee and Epic Spaceman collaborated on a super interesting video that gives you a real sense of the scale and complexity of modern CPUs. Marques has a huge YouTube Channel where he typically reviews new devices, cars and other technology. This video is a bit atypical for him - not only is it more [...]

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