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New release removes all license restrictions from the Maya rigging toolkit - but update before 1 March 2026 if you're using an older version.

Check out the new features in the popular hard surface modeling tool, including a new instancing system, and shareable web previews.

Let’s cook up something festive in geometry nodes for the holidays! Learn how to make a seamless and procedural motion design loop. Enjoy!

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Procedural materials can be incredibly powerful—until they’re not. Michael Bridges dives into a common issue that comes up when applying procedural textures to curves and pipes, particularly when UV mapping starts to stretch and distort. If you've ever found your materials looking strange on longer or more complex shapes, you'll know exactly what I mean. [...]

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Another awesome marble race video by Alan Luk.

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Check out the changes to the planar and 3D tracking software, including a new AI-powered system for refining tricky edges on mattes.

When working between multiple 3D Software, you might have some compatibility issues with the Normal Map format, here's how to fix it.

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benjaminaubone writes: Hello dear BlenderNation family! I'm pleased to present "Mecha Cat Monster Hunter," an animated short film made entirely in Grease Pencil. Hugs!

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I love the epic scale of the scenes in Kaleab Aklilu's reel!

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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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Check out the changes to the Maya edition of the renderer, including a new displacement material, and a viewport live link to Vantage.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I need Build a low-poly 3D version of a section of map coordinates set in Blender 5.0 using rea 3D Character Artist — Animated AI Companion Dog I need a model of a wristwatch that would also fit on a [...]

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Check out the new features in the material authoring software, improving workflow when creating and editing node graphs.

Check out the features in the latest beta build of Nuke, also including a new BigCat node for training larger custom AI models on VFX data.

Check out the latest features in the Blender edition of the renderer, including macOS support, and a new distributed rendering system.

Real-time ray tracing renderer is now available as a viewport renderer in Houdini, via a Hydra delegate. New smoke and fire simulator, too.

Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease [...]

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Check out the changes to the Houdini edition of the renderer, including a 'completely re-imagined' volume shader for smoke and fire.

Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Manual & UI Translations Cleanup: Removal of Inactive, Empty Translations Modules & Projects 2025-12-02 User Interface Meeting 2025-12-02 XR Meeting 2025-12-02 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-12-04 Core Module Meeting 2025-12-04 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-12-04 Platforms & Builds module meeting 2025-12-08 Viewport & EEVEE module [...]

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In this tutorial you'll learn how to generate Minecraft-like worlds inside of Blender using a free add-on. Get the Minecraft Generator here.

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