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Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.

First big update to the new edition of V-Ray for Blender users adds support for Geometry Nodes and a Cycles-to-V-Ray material converter.

Wacom ups its funding for Blender by €210,000/year in partnership to develop 'next-gen" Blender experience on Android tablets.

Check out the price and key specs for the 'industry first' pen display with Calman Ready built in for color calibration for high-end CG work.

Dive into creating Manga-style NPR rendering with this super extensive and free tutorial series by Harry Helps. Hello Everyone! In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll create a subtle looping animation of a manga style environment in Blender! We'll be using a panel from the manga "BLAME!" as our reference! We'll start with a ready-made starter file [...]

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Behavioural Palaeontologist Tony's plan to take down the hunters begins. He has lured the buck tyrannosaur to their base camp, and now he must find a way to release all the captive dinosaurs, as well as find out what happened to the doe rex.

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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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Master professional workflows for creating games environments with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: B3AR Creative | Contract Unity 3D Artist - Remote Aviary Productions | Prop Artist Maya to Blender Look Dev Conversion - On-going Engagement Advanced Game Artist Creston Games | Lead 3D Artist 3D Redner & Animations Join Bespoke Pixel – [...]

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Check out the new machine learning models in the pro upscaling plugin for compositing and video editing applications.

J Hill interviews Juan Hernández about his amazing experiment with the videogame character Stitch  from Lilo & Stitch.

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SDK for developers looking to integrate FidelityFX tech into their apps now includes latest version of the AI image upscaling system.

Noggi took on the task to recreate an 'impossible' shot from One Piece. He shows all the steps which include tedious shape key creation, setting up lighting for individual elements and of course Grease Penci animation!

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Clothing design tool gets the option to create garment parts by drawing onto a 3D avatar, and an AI Pose Generator. See the other changes.

Blender 4.5 introduces a major update to the grid fill tool, which now handles complex geometries more effectively and produces cleaner results.

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Minor update to the image-editing and digital painting software adds a new Star tool for drawing regular star polygons on the canvas.

Game engine's new AI toolset includes generative AI features for creating sprites, textures and animations. Check out our FAQs.

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-08-12 Blender Admins Meeting 2025-08-12 User Interface Meeting 2025-08-13 Grease Pencil Rendering Meeting 2025-08-14 Core Module Meeting 2025-08-14 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-08-15 Project Updates meeting 2025-08-18 Viewport & EEVEE Module meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes [...]

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Smoke, fire and effects plugin gets GPU-accelerated ocean simulation system, with support for foam, spray and floating objects.