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10 expert tips for building production-ready lighting macros
Industrial Light & Magic lighting TD Jonathan Wai reveals how to build Katana macros that hold up in real-world movie and TV productions.
Boris FX releases Continuum 2026.5
New features in the effects plugins include AI-powered video deinterlacing and updates to AI facial matte generation.
Polygonflow releases free Dash asset manager for Unreal Engine
New free add-on based on the Dash world-building toolset provides a more powerful alternative to UE5's native content browser.
Animayo hosts the world premiere of the exhibition “The Visual World of Alan Bodner”, a key figure in international animation
The 21st edition of Animayo Gran Canaria will host the world premiere of the exhibition “The Visual World of Alan Bodner”, a star guest and one of the most recognised figures in contemporary animation art direction.
Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 4 May 2026
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Google Summer of Code: Google granted us 8 projects for this year’s edition. Modules & Projects 2026-04-28 Render & Cycles Meeting 2026-04-28 Modeling Module Meeting 2026-04-28 Sequencer Meeting 2026-04-29 User Interface Meeting 2026-04-30 Core Module Meeting 2026-04-30 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2026-04-30 Animation & […]
World Machine will support VDM-based terrain, not just heightmaps
Upcoming Dragontail Peak updates will also bring the veteran terrain-generation software to Linux and macOS as well as Windows.
Build Your First Blender Add-on: A Complete Beginner Walkthrough
“Hey Claude, make me an add-on, no mistakes.” Catchy line, but it raises a real question for anyone learning Blender Python today: is leaning on LLMs every day quietly eroding the coding muscle you actually need? This is a complete beginner Python add-on tutorial, built from scratch with no AI shortcuts and no copy-pasted scripts. […]
3DCoat Sculpt Sessions Pt 44
3DCoat Sculpt Sessions Pt 43
UV Path Tool
3DCoat Nodal Network Introduction (for Sculpt Objects)
New CBaileyFilm Tutorial! Create An Alien Landscape & Dust Effect
Learn to create this cool Alien Landscape and Dust Effect in this tutorial by Chris Bailey. This will be the first of a series of tutorials showing how to create a chase sequence in Blender.
New Blender KIT OPS kitbashing update
Mocha Trace: The Easiest Way to Convert Images to SVG on Desktop
Free Add-on: Subdivide Select New
Subdivide a face, edge loop, or face ring and have only the new vertices and edges selected: ready for the next operator. Funkworks writes: When you run Subdivide, the midpoint verts and inner edges are there. If you want to bevel, slide, or extrude them, Blender’s *original* selection is still active, with the new geometry […]
Tutorial: Claymation in ZBrush
Discover a ground-breaking workflow for creating claymation-style animation digitally with The Gnomon Workshop's tutorial.
PolyGroup Panel Improvements
Citigen 2026 Released
After almost a year of development, Citigen 2026 is finally out with the Sci-fi Asset Pack. Check out what took it so long and what you can do with it. All previous purchasers of “Citigen” can get a free update. And if you have purchased it in any market other than superhivemarket.com. Please forward your […]
Blender Jobs for May 8, 2026
Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Senior / Director VFX Artist (Stylized Games | Unity3D) / Europe Seeking Modeller -> 1973 BMW 2002 [Freelance] Experienced Environment Artist (Unreal Engine) [PAID] Hiring solo Blender modelers — residential 3D for Three.js For more jobs, look here.
Royal Render at 25: the industry’s artist-first render manager
[Sponsored] Discovery why Binary Alchemy created its intelligent render-management tool - and what's new in its anniversary update.