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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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Master professional techniques in Photoshop and Maya with ILM Art Director Igor Staritsin's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

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.