The Blender Foundation announces its annual user survey. This survey aims to better understand: The user community demographics: age group, geography and professional background Common use cases and workflows Users’ top priorities for further improvements How people connect with the Blender project and get involved as contributors How the community spends money (Blender Development Fund […]

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Jan van den Hemel explains how to fix Merged Geometry after Voxel remeshing.

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Blender has a lot of useful modeling tools that many artists don’t even know exist. Some of them can save you a surprising amount of time, especially when working with complex shapes and detailed geometry. Stanisław writes: In my latest tutorial, I explore several tools from the free Edit Mesh Tools add-on and show how […]

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Ryan King shows us how to create this Cute Pumpkin Carving Sculpt.

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After a year and a half of work, animators at the Hungarian Centre for Ecological Research have created Life in a Drop, a 15-minute popular science short film, using Blender. Tibor Kisantal writes: Scientists at the Institute of Aquatic Ecology, part of the research centre, have long been working on 3D models of algae from […]

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Learn how to create Spider Verse style animations in Blender. Derek Flood writes: For Spider Verse, Sony developed proprietary tools to allow artists to create hand drawn line work that follows the animated characters. In this video I wanted to share how you can do the same as an independent animator using Grease Pencil and […]

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RenderJuice is running a Blender animation contest around one topic: Speed. Make a 5-30 second Blender animation: a tiny story, a procedural experiment, a simulation, just something funny or anything you want. The only big creative rule is that Blender should be your main creation tool and it should interpret the contest topic. There’s $1,500 […]

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All the Loop Tools are now native in Blender 5.3 beta, so how do they work and are they better or worse than the add-on version?

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This is the second part of Daniel Orji’s series, showing his process for blocking out clothing and accessories.

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In this three part beginner Blender tutorial series, Ryan King will show you how to create this stylized low poly treasure chest scene.

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UNOMi has officially brought its AI-powered lip-sync technology to Blender. Designed for animators, game developers and studios, UNOMi automatically analyzes dialogue and generates character lip-sync animation, reducing the amount of manual work traditionally required for facial animation. The Blender integration currently supports English, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, French, German, Korean and Russian, with additional languages planned. […]

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Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Graphiste 2D/3D (H/F) Technical Director, Applied AI | Game Dev, R&D | Remote Senior Animation Engineer | Unity3D | Remote | Stylized Games For more jobs, look here.

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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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Let’s create a cute stylized robot in Blender and check out some new materials in the latest version.

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Unrealizex does 3D reconstruction without using generative AI. Oscar Baechler writes: Learn how to set up UnrealizeX’s Blender extension. You can then use UnrealizeX directly in Blender’s interface. Unrealizex does 3D reconstruction without using generative AI. This video demonstrates our one-shot process on a CC-0 photo of a pilot helmet. Some of our pipeline tools […]

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100+ high-quality PBR material scans availableunder a royalty-free license. Balint Barlai writes: There is no sign-up or account required. You can browse, select, and download the materials directly from our library. Everything is released under a Standard Royalty-Free license. You are fully cleared to use these materials in commercial projects, freelance work, renders, and games […]

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Matelume is a Windows app that turns flat images (scans, catalogue swatches and digital designs) into seamless, true-scale PBR materials: fabric, wall art and marble. On the left of the picture above is the only image we started from: five plain colours. On the right is a Cycles render of the fabric Matelume made from […]

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Chris Bailey teaches us how to use a brand new feature in geometry nodes to create a Death Star trench. This method is really exciting and fantastic for creating greebled services quickly and easily. In the members version he will take things further by adding laser towers to our geometry nodes set up. https://youtu.be/fUP80bpMS_U

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Meshes from AI generators, 3D scans, CAD imports and heavy booleans all share the same problem: triangles everywhere, no edge flow, and topology that falls apart the moment you deform, UV or sculpt it. I built Quadify, a family of Blender add-ons that turns those meshes into clean, animation-ready quad topology, without hours of manual […]

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Do you have trouble creating nature scenes in Blender? In this video, Yeho Studios shows how you can create this realistic lake landscape in Blender from absolute scratch. Whether you are a beginner in Blender or a seasoned 3D artist, this video has something for everyone.

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