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Blender Jobs for January 30, 2026
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Help needed, 3d generalist, animators, environment design, starting at north of 800$ a model 3D Environment Artist Senior 3D Artist (Generalist/Environment) [Hiring] Blender Artist: Aircraft Refinement for CAD/Catia ($200) Freelance 3D Archviz Artist [Hiring] 3d artist for support: Stylized Characters [...]
Open Image Denoise 3 will support temporal denoising
Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.
Free Houdini add-on GGro creates crazily beautiful organic forms
Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.
Extraviado | Dementira
Get free Maya character rigging toolset mGear 5.2
Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.
Milano Cortina Olympics TV Promo RAI | FullScream
BiteTheBytes releases World Creator 2026.1
Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.
Adobe releases Photoshop 27.3 and Photoshop 27.4 beta
Check out the latest features in the image-editing software, including two new adjustment layer types and updates to the generative AI tools.
Netflix Animation Studios donates €240k/year to Blender dev fund
Animal Logic-incorporating Netflix subsidiary becomes 'first major animation studio to support Blender's continued development'.
Netflix Animation Studios joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
A historic first for the animation industry!
Dres The Thief | Rogue Creatures / Tomás Vergara
Discover 5 (plus 5) key features for CG artists in Godot 4.6
Read our pick of the key changes to rendering, animation and physics in the open-source game engine - plus five neat quality-of-life updates.
Winter Forest Environment (Tutorial Series)
Ryan King Art writes: In this 6 part Blender tutorial series we will create this stylized winter forest environment.
Lazy Composer 2 adds one-click film emulation to Blender
New add-on adds DaVinci Resolve-inspired controls for cinematic color grades, film grain and lens effects in Blender's compositor. Free edition.
Thanks Ben VR Experience | UNKNW
This $25 PDF lists PBR color values for 600 real-world materials
Games artist Grzegorz Baran's meticulously researched PBR Color Reference list is an vital source for look dev and shading artists.
Autodesk lays off a further 1,000 staff
Second major round of layoffs at the 3ds Max and Maya developer in a year will affect sales staff and is not "an effort to replace people with AI".
LoFi Girl Tribute
Fred Comal re-created the famous LoFi girl in Blender and shares some insights on the creation process and it's challenges. Perhaps by some “chance” YouTube algorithm, I stumbled upon this LoFi Girl video, whose visual style I really liked. So, as a personal test, I wanted to see if I could recreate it. It was [...]
Howler 2026.3 is out
Check out the new features in the digital painting and animation app, including a new rich text system and built-in video transcoding.
BCON Austin call for speakers
Jason van Gumster writes: The second-ever official BCON in North America is coming to Austin, Texas on April 13th-14th! Two years ago, we hosted BCON LA and by all accounts it was an incredible event to attend. We're aiming to do it again... perhaps even better. And we want you there! Of course, the cornerstone [...]