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Motionographer was at the 2026 Tribeca Festival, in the room for Madonna's Confessions II, Whoopi Goldberg's world of animation, Tribeca X with David Droga, and Paul Rudd in conversation with Seth Meyers. This is the beginning of our Tribeca coverage, where image, motion, design, story, sound, and culture meet.

Let’s use few modifiers to quickly create a sandcastle stylized scene in Blender!

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Pennant Video Co., the mid-funnel video marketing studio, has hired Emmy-winning Motion Designer Joe Skoniecki as Motion Graphics Designer. Skoniecki joins Pennant from Klaviyo and brings more than a decade of experience spanning Motion Design, animation, branded content, and creative storytelling. Before Klaviyo, he spent seven years agency-side and also worked as a freelance animator... Read more »

Blender version of the renderer also gets a new Node Wrangler and GPU rendering on AMD GPUs, including in the free Community Edition.

New version of the terrain design software adds new macro system and 16K baking, but release dates for Gaea 2.4 and 3.0 pushed back.

Major update to the 3D modeling and animation software adds new physics-based layout, rigging, VFX and camera tracking tools.

Blender shows up repeatedly in the making-of for “School of Football”, Boston Dynamics’ collaboration with Hyundai, as part of their pipeline to teach their Atlas robot to move using one of the hardest, most dynamic motion references out there: football – ahead of the upcoming World Cup. Hat tip to Gab Mon for finding this […]

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Get a free Maya creature rig with both body and facial controls, created using Maya character rigging framework BEAR.

In this 8 part Blender tutorial series we will create this Helicopter Robot.

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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 simulation workflows using Houdini's Vellum solver with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed six-hour tutorial.

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [PAID] Blender Animator & Technology Storyteller | Ad-Hoc / Remote NextCG is Looking for Artists Senior Animator (Remote/Permanent) [European Union] Senior / Director VFX Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) / Europe [PAID] VFX Layered Clip Licensing — AI Research Project […]

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Planar and 3D tracking software gets AI-based point tracking tech for tracking previously impossible shots. See the other new features.

The Flame Flaming Justice has introduced its newest project, The Flame, an ambitious series of visually powerful music videos. The project combines hand-crafted artwork, innovative digital production, and inspiring storytelling, creating content designed to unite people, spark conversations, and encourage positive action in a rapidly changing world. Why support The Flame? First, you’re helping independent... Read more »

Open-source game engine gets new native particle system, updates to tonemapping and the physical sky, and automatic LOD generation.

A quick but very clear and thorough explanation of Fields in Blender’s Geometry Nodes by Richard Yot. This fundamental concept is the key to understanding how selections are made, and how data flows in the node graph.

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Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including updates to hex tiling, and support for DoF in real-time renderer Redshift Live.

3D animation and motion graphics software gets a new, completely redesigned UV Editor and UV tools. Check out all of the changes here.