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See Trend VFX’s seven-minute VFX breakdown for slave drama Asad
Watch the Egyptian studio's epic making-of for Moon Knight director Mohamed Diab's new movie, from crowds and cities to a CG baby.
Grease Pencil to Solid Surface
This video by Blender Secrets shows a kind of experimental workflow for sketching in 3D with Grease Pencil, and then converting that to a solid surface mesh object. It’s not a super reliable workflow and it takes a bit of practice, so I don’t recommend it for most people. But maybe someone out there will […]
Nevercenter releases Silo 2026.2
Check out the new features in the lightweight 3D modelling and UV mapping tool, including improved FBX, GLB and USD import,
Retro TV Animation Tutorial
Let’s model a retro TV in Blender and play with shader nodes to add a static noise CRT effect on the animated screen.
Frame Perfect: put your Blender camera exactly where you’re looking
VeeVeeVee’s new add-on lets you quickly set up a camera to match your current view. I have been using Blender for years to create 3D models for printing, and I always struggled with the camera. I would finish modeling something I was really proud of, and then the rendering part was just miserable. Getting the […]
Adobe releases Photoshop 27.10
Update brings prompt-based image editing to Photoshop, including a complete new AI Assisted Editor. See how it works here.
Motion graphics tool Caddis puts a node graph in every layer
Motion designer Mike Gaynor's neat After Effects alternative is now out of beta - and now available for Linux, as well as Windows and macOS.
CCC Matcher: A free Extension for Colour Chart Matching
Blender has a lot to offer for VFX work – but falls a bit short when it comes to plate preparation and colour matching. This free extension is intended to fill that gap. Paul Schlichter writes: With CCC Matcher you can sample colour checker charts, match the colours of your HDRI and camera plate and […]
Retopo & Poly-Modeling Tools: Using Radial Symmetrical Copy
Best of Blender Artists: 2026-35
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.
Maya tutorial: The Principles of Physics in Action Scenes
Discover how understanding real-world physics principles helps animators create better shots with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
Blender Jobs for August 28, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Environment Artist for Unity Based FPS 3D Low-Poly Character Modeling with Morph Targets (GLB for Android) yaz For more jobs, look here.
See Troll VFX’s breakdown for hurricane/shark thriller Thrash
Check out the Finnish studio's making-of for its varied water effects for the survival drama, from walls of seawater to floating cars.
Creating a Mars Rover Using Booleans #3dsculpting
Creating a Mars Rover Using Booleans | Demonstration of Creating a Hard-Surface Object
Message in a Bottle Tutorial
Let’s create a message in a bottle scene in Blender 5.2 a play around with some of the new Blender materials and features.
Get free VFX image viewer and video playback tool DJV 3.5
Check out the new features in former Lucasfilm developer Darby Johnston's open-source image viewer for VFX and animation work.
Mixos Live Link – send a mesh from Blender, get a principled material back
Back in June we posted Mixos here as a browser-based texture painter. The thing Blender users asked for most was a way to skip the export/import loop entirely, so they built one. Live Link is a free, GPL-licensed add-on that makes the round trip two-way: Press Send to Mixos in the 3D Viewport sidebar (N […]
See DNEG’s breakdown of its period-accurate VFX for Star City
Check out DNEG's making-of for the spacecraft, lunar landscapes and orbital flyovers the studio created for the alternate-history sci-fi series.
Apple unveils new M5 Ultra and M6 processors
Check out the specs for Apple's 'most powerful chip ever', and see how it performs in CG applications like Nuke and Redshift.