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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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Let’s have some fun with the power of the curve profiles in Blender and create a vintage explorer’s lantern.

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This extension helps you optimize your Blender render times. Dustin Hanke writes: I recently released SceneTrace, a free and open-source Blender extension for tracking scene performance over time and helping answer a simple question: Why did my Blender scene get slower? As a scene grows, performance can gradually degrade because of geometry, modifiers, materials, collections, […]

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: PAID – Blue Zoo Animation Studio: Experienced Blender Modeller Opportunity For more jobs, look here.

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Your render looks flat because it is lit too evenly. Light It Up fixes that in one click, and then lets you take the result apart. It builds a real lighting rig around your object: 37 studio and portrait presets, including the six classic portrait patterns – Rembrandt, split, loop, butterfly, short and broad – […]

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Big update to the free online tool for viewing and editing 3D Gaussian Splats lets you visualize tens of millions of Gaussians smoothly.

Twenty years, twenty days. To mark Motionographer's 20th anniversary, job postings on Motionographer Jobs are free from September 10 through September 29, every submission personally reviewed, every approved listing live for 30 days.

A free Blender add-on suite for preparing figure models for 3D printing. 299 MODEL WORKS writes: The tools were developed from repetitive tasks I encountered while turning AI-generated figure meshes into printable parts. Version 1.0.0 includes seven tools: Size from Head Proportion – Calculates the scale factor needed to resize a figure from its current […]

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This tutorial walks through a complete Headshot 3 stylized image to 3D pipeline, turning a single piece of front-facing bodybuilder caricature art into a fully rigged, sculpt-ready CC5 character. You will generate a side-profile reference with AI, reshape the fitting splines to capture exaggerated proportions, sculpt the muscle groups in Blender as a non-destructive morph, […]

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Check out the new features in the GPU production renderer, including updates to new real-time render engine Redshift Live.

In this new tutorial from C Bailey Film, get started modelling in Blender by learning the five basic tools you can use to make anything. The tutorial will cover the basics of modelling and the key concepts you need to succeed.

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Discover the studio's EmberGen-augmented postvis and final VFX for the martial arts movie's Red Throne Room and Netherworld sequences.

Check out the new features in compositing and motion graphics app, including the new agentic AI Assistant in the current beta build.

Prism Suite is a paid Early Access interface layer for Blender. It does not replace Blender’s modeling, animation, rendering, or file format; it changes how you reach the native controls you already use. The beta combines 17 coordinated add-ons across sidebar tabs, toolbars, menus, Properties, modifiers, shape keys, Timeline, Video Sequencer, node editors, search, and […]

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MAKE, the creative studio known for impactful animation and original storytelling, has officially opened applications for the 2026 MAKE Animation Thesis Grant. The annual program offers senior animation students funding, production resources, and promotional visibility to help bring their thesis films to life exactly as envisioned. Launched in 2024, the grant was created to champion... Read more »

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2026-08-31 Viewport & EEVEE module meeting 2026-08-31 Grease Pencil Module Meeting Notes 2026-08-31 Modeling Module Meeting 2026-09-01 Asset Libraries: Multi-File Support Meeting 2026-09-01 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-09-01 Sequencer Meeting 2026-09-02 User Interface Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Triaging Module Meeting 2026-09-03 Platforms & Builds […]

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Daniel shares his whole blender story, why he loves it, and how he uses it. Daniel Grove writes: I was honored to speak at the 2026 Blender Conference in Austin, Texas but due to time limitations and technical difficulties I wasn’t able to share everything I had planned. So here it all is!

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Free update to the 3D compositing app adds new Krokodove motion graphics tools, and updates to deep compositing and lens correction.