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Check out the changes to the digital sculpting software, including a new retopology brush, plus photogrammetry in the iPad edition.

Check out the changes to the 3D modeling and animation software, including new Advanced Distributions for motion graphics.

Big update to the GPU renderer adds meshlet streaming for dense geometry, and support for 3DGS data, MaterialX and OpenPBR.

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.

Gleb Alexandrov shares an incredibly polished EEVEE reel. EEVEE in Blender 5.0 looks unbelievable: experience the demo reel from the research materials for our ‘EEVEE Realistic Lighting & Rendering course’ (which is coming very soon!).

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Free grading and video editing app now supports 32K workflows on M5 Macs. Check out the other new features for VFX artists and colorists.

Free update to the 3D compositor improves 3D rendering of shadow, reflect and refract layers, and improves performance and stability.

Ryan King creates this procedural parquet wood floor material in Blender.

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Promising new tool based exports liquid sims in Alembic format for use in other CG software. Now updated to support spray emission.

Blender 5 has changed the way assets are loaded into your scenes from the Asset Browser. By default you are going to find that everything is locked and greyed out, meaning you have no ability to change any settings and any rigs will break. These is a simple fix shown in this short video.

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As the demands on the reliability and stability of Blender keep increasing, the Blender Foundation found they needed a space that allows for forward thinking experimentation. The new Blender Lab provides an environment for these kinds of projects. Francesco writes: Over the years, Blender has grown and matured into a powerful and complex piece of [...]

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Calvin Serrano got to VFX supervise and produce the 3D animations for this years League of Legends Worlds 2025 Tournament. Take a look behind the scenes of these ambitious hype teasers they make with way too little time! The main challenge this time was the huge amount of shots we needed to add CG set [...]

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