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Many videos have demonstrated how to use shadows projected from gobos to quickly add depth to a scene. However, have you ever experimented with 360 gobos? This video by Daniel Oakfield explains various techniques for creating intricate shadows in your scene using 360 gobos that work both in Cycles and EEVEE.

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-09-09 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-09-11 Core Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-09-11 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-09-11 Design Meeting 2025-09-12 Projects Updates meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. [...]

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It's hard to miss Silksong this week! Earlier, we shared a tutorial by Farrukh on creating a stylized rendering of the character. Today, Vertex Arcade creates a version that's a little closer to the original. Here's the final result on Sketchfab:

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In this Blender tutorial Ryan King shows how to make an Animated Procedural Black Hole.

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Original Blender creator to hand over role as CEO of the Blender Foundation to COO Francesco Siddi at the start of next year.

Here comes a tutorial video of how you can create a simple city generator by using geometry nodes in Blender. We are about to make the generator and then a shader that will make a mist effect for it. This effect works nicely for stylized animation backgrounds.

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Ton Roosendaal announced to step down as chairman and Blender CEO per January 1st 2026, passing on his roles to Blender COO Francesco Siddi.

3D animation software for VFX and games to get new 'agentic AI partner' Autodesk Assistant and AI lip-sync tool FaceAnimator.

The Czech  Parametr Studio specializes in generative designs. George writes about their prize-winning futuristic architecture challenge entry. Introduction In May 2024, ParametricArchitecture.com launched an international design challenge with the theme “Temple for a Desert Festival in 2030”. Out of hundreds of entries, my project was recognized with an Honorable Mention, which I’m excited to share [...]

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Let’s give some tribute to the latest Borderlands release and create its iconic robot companion from scratch, including textures and Grease Pencil line art.

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Ducky 3D shows how to achieve an interesting particle effect. In this Blender tutorial we will be using geometry nodes to make thousands of particles (points) in geometry nodes form around any logo we want to. This is a very useful trick you can use in your motion graphics. Enjoy!  

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Read our pick of the latest artist features in the open-source game engine. including updates to lighting, shading and animation.

You can now download the annual report of the Blender Foundation that provides a thorough outline of the Foundation's goals, organization, finances, projects and people. Ton Roosendaal writes: The year of 2024 was another great year for Blender. The user base keeps growing more professionally, and support from the industry and especially from the community [...]

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Ambitious start-up's €240,000/year is the biggest contribution to Blender of any GPU manufacturer - before it has even shipped a card.

Blendereverything shares another compilation of awesome geometry nodes projects.  

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Funded by an Epic MegaGrant, the plugin will stream animation data from the AI-assisted animation app to the game engine in real time.

The 2024 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available.

This is a collection of 24 PBR textures for Blender, with the focus on hard surfaces. Textures are 4k (4096 X 4096 pixels) and seamless. They are provided as assets, so it's drag and drop easy to add them to your objects. They have been tested in Blender 3.6 and 4.x, although they should be [...]

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Check out the new features in the UV unwrapping and packing app, including a new Scene Outliner, and support for GPU packing.

3D texture painting software gets long-awaited Multi-Paint system for projection-painting multiple texture maps simultaneously.