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Updated: check out motion designer Mike Gaynor's neat After Effects alternative, currently free in beta - and now available for Windows.

Update to the 3D texture painting software for games and VFX reworks baking and UV unwrapping. Check out all of the new features.

New free edition of the real-time animation software can be used indefinitely, including on commercial projects - but there are limitations.

For several years, the Blender Foundation has been asking to not use the name ‘Blender’ in the name of companies and their products, mainly to avoid a sense of them being official or endorsed. Community sites are generally exempt from this (phew!), but they will actively work with more commercial parties to update to a […]

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Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine and real-time renderer, from better area lighting to HDR output.

Battlefield 6 developer becomes the latest - and highest-profile Corporate Platinum sponsor - of the open-source game engine.

In this sample from his E-book, Jan van den Hemel looks at the Double Subdivision method, where he combines two Subdiv modifiers with different settings to quickly create an all-quads base mesh, which can then be further detailed with either mesh modeling or sculpting techniques.  

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At the 2026 Tribeca Festival, Paul Rudd sat down with Seth Meyers for a conversation about instinct, taste, and the courage to stay curious across 30-plus years on screen. What Rudd's choices, from Marvel to Mac and Me, teach anyone who makes work between commerce and expression.

Check out the new features in the production renderer, including the option to relight and render imported 3D Gaussian Splats.

In this Blender tutorial we will create this Procedural Picnic Blanket Fabric Material.

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TwelveLabs, the video understanding company, has announced the availability of its newest innovation: Rodeo. As TwelveLabs’ first application-layer product, Rodeo brings AI agents directly into video production workflows, enabling creators to find, edit, and assemble footage using natural language. The release marks the company’s evolution from a pure infrastructure provider to one also building tools... Read more »

Unity artists get updates to the Shader and VFX Graphs, but OptiX denoising and the Built-In Render Pipeline are both deprecated.

Blender 5.2 LTS introduces a game-changing update for 2D artists: the Delaunay Fill Algorithm. In this in-depth tutorial, I explore why this shift from pixel-based flood fill to a geometric solver is a “huge deal” for Grease Pencil users. Mumu Mundo writes: The new engine provides faster, more accurate fills that are zoom-independent, finally solving […]

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The industry-changing real-time tool is about to enter a new era. Discover what UE6 means for games, VFX and visualization artists.

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: VFX Artist — Layered Clip Licensing for AI Research Searching for 3d Vehicle artist (Paid) Looking for archiviz and video editor freelancers Multidisciplinary Visual Artist — 3D, Animation & Live Visuals **# 3D/AI Generalist / Blender** [Freelance] Architectural Concept Artist […]

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Epic Games' free mocap plugin extracts full-body and finger motion from phone or camera footage to transfer to MetaHuman characters.