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Check out the new features in the free alternative to Substance 3D Designer, including a new Dynamic Sky Material. Now also on Steam.

Check out the new features in the procedural city generation software, including new tools for creating street layouts, and a Python 3 API.

Check out the new features in this powerful set of geometry optimization tools for games and VFX work. Free to indie artists.

Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation software, including a new physically based rendering environment.

Houdini edition of the renderer gets support for relighting Gaussian splats, better volume rendering, tighter integration with Solaris.

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 […]

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Discover how to create game-ready materials with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed guide to modern environment art workflows.

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.

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Maya edition of the renderer gets support for AMD GPU rendering, and better support for Bifrost and rendering 3D Gaussian Splats.

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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In this video Jan van den Hemel looks at setting up the nodes for tearing cloth apart in Blender 5.2.

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New tech compresses geometry caches from destruction, cloth and liquid sims by 'up to 92%' for real-time rendering in Unreal Engine.

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, […]

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Promising new free application provides a 'clean, distraction-free space' for sculpting characters and creatures for games and VFX work.

Open-source app converts 3D scans or sculpts to clean, low-poly, all-quad geometry. Comes with an unofficial Blender bridge plugin.

The Blender team is back in Los Angeles to present and take part at SIGGRAPH 2026.

In this Blender tutorial Ryan King teaches the basics of Geometry Nodes for Beginners.

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Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to 3D Gaussian Splatting and the Neural Radiance Cache.

Check out the new features in the AI-powered Character Creator plugin for generating 3D digital doubles from reference photos.