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Blender 4.4 Released: Check Out These Standout Features
Blender 4.4 introduces significant improvements focused on stability and quality, alongside innovative features that enhance animation workflows and video editing capabilities. Key Features: Action Slots: Revolutionizes animation by allowing multiple data-blocks to share a single Action, simplifying complex animations. Video Sequencer Enhancements: Improved text editing, support for H.265 codec, and faster performance for various effects [...]
Jiggle Physics With Geometry Nodes in Blender
harryblends steps through the tools and techniques I used in Blender to create DEREK - simulated procedural creature with customizable jiggle physics. I developed him as an experiment in creating secondary motion with geometry nodes and here I build him bit by bit, explaining all the principles that make him work.
"Rage against the T-Pose!" [Blender Short/Tease]
Todor Nikolov has released a short teasing an upcoming Blender course. This short video showcases some of the techniques and skills that viewers can expect to learn in the course. The course will be available for free on Todor's YouTube channel in the coming days. Stay tuned for more updates
Character Creation-Enhanced Eye Rig
Anthony's creation series continues with more rigging tips and this time we are taking a closer look at the eyes. In this first part, we cover how you can fairly easily add more eye control to the base Rigify metarig and what to watch out for that could mess it up a little. In case [...]
BlenderKit Spring Sale [$]
BlenderKit is an extensive 3D asset library seamlessly integrated into Blender 3D. The ever-growing database includes 3D models, materials, brushes, scenes, HDRIs, node groups, and Blender add-ons. Spring to life with BlenderKit! Get a huge 3D asset library 25% off! More than anything, BlenderKit is a community. Founded in the spirit of open-source, BlenderKit is [...]
Quick Tip: Freeze Painted/Transparent Pixels
Blender Jobs for March 21, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Python: Separate Z-Anatomy.py into independent add-ons Blender ConjureSDF plugin model work Environment Artist VFX for one shot in my Short Film [$50hr] Environment Artist for Sci-Fi Videogame RealTruck, Inc. | Junior 3D Modeler (Contract position) Eleven Eleven | Lead 3D [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-12
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.
Unity unveils its 2025 product roadmap
Features due in Unity this year include in-editor LOD generation, swappable physics backends, and more generative AI tools.
Unity previews Unity 6.1
Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.
CharMorph v0.4.0 Character Creator Released
CharMorph is an Open Source character creation tool for Blender. Its goal is to offer high-quality, parameterized character models that not only rival closed-source solutions but exceed them, achieving the level of quality seen in blockbuster movies and next-gen video games. We are pleased to announce the first major release of CharMorph, a comprehensive character [...]
NVIDIA unveils Blackwell RTX PRO GPUs with up to 96GB VRAM
New series of pro workstation and laptop GPUs include the 'most powerful desktop GPU ever created'. See its key specs for CG work.
Tape Animation Tutorial
Let’s model and animate a cool and colorful retro cassette tape scene in Blender.
Blender 4.4 Release
Blender Foundation and the online developer community proudly present Blender 4.4!
5 key features in Blender 4.4
Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.
Sketchsoft releases Feather 1.1
Promising 3D sketching app for iPad gets time-saving new workflows for Apple Pencil users, including support for haptic feedback.
Quick Tip Restoring Material Preview Window
GIMP 3.0 is out after seven years in development
Long-awaited update to the open-source image editor adds non-destructive layer effects and better interoperability with Photoshop.
Spiral Roll Geometry Node Presets - Motion Presets Update [$]
The March 2025 update for “Motion Presets for Blender” has been released, here are the new features. Spiral Node Geometry Node Presets: You can roll a plane mesh either horizontally or vertically Node Setup is programmatically generated by the python script, no extra blend files are needed 1 Click option for Mesh preparation that gives [...]
Perfect 'Stroopwafel' Factory Loop Animation in Blender – New Geometry Nodes!
Menno van Roon is creating Dutch Stroopwafels in Blender! It's been a while! A few years back—I know time flies, right!?—I posted a video similar to this. Only for Blender to start rapidly developing Geometry Nodes, meaning that workflow was quickly out of date. Hence, this update. Blender's latest Geometry Nodes updates make factory animations [...]