Spencer Magnusson writes: Proxies are a common industry standard in reducing geometry and making the viewport faster. Few people know that Blender already utilizes proxies within Blender. Let me show you 3 methods (2 of which are automatic!).

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SkySplat is a free Blender addon that simplifies the workflow for creating 3D Gaussian Splats from drone footage. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline the process from video import to frame extraction, and loose integration of Blender with COLMAP and GraphDeco-INRIA's gaussian splatting repo. After several sessions of command line tomfoolery, I [...]

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Ryan King shows us how to make realistic water caustics. I also have another tutorial on how to make the pool donuts:

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Calver school presents a global blender community challenge and collaborative short film. This unique initiative invites participants to create imaginative worlds and contribute to a collaborative animated short film, with opportunities to win empowering tools, software and gain industry recognition. Challenge Timeline: Challenge Start & Template Release: June 8, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 6, 2025 [...]

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Let’s create a cute stylized ice cream truck in Blender.

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Simon Lachapelle offers a new collection of professional-grade HDRi plates. Simon writes: Hey Blender friends, 👋 Over the past year, I’ve been studying how to create the best HDRIs possible and traveling around to capture and build a high-quality HDRI pack. I've been working in the VFX industry for the past 10 years, and this [...]

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MrSorbias shows how to create a simple generator that will make city backgrounds for your animation projects. He will create a shader that will make mist effects to objects.

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Every year, Google hosts their ‘Summer of Code’, a program to stimulate Open Source development by mentoring new developers for selected projects. If you’re interested to contribute to Blender with this 12-week long program, you can apply now!

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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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In this video, Michael Bridges dives into the recent changes to how brushes work in Blender since version 4.3, especially in the 2D animation workspace with Grease Pencil. I explore the new asset-based system for brushes, which, while promising, presents a few usability challenges—particularly when it comes to customizing or creating new brushes. The interface [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Bode Software | 3D prop and environment artist Looking for a 3d modeller to TieTalent | Senior Game Artist Mercor | 3D Artist Mercor | 3D Generalist Wiraa | 3D Game Artist Help with finalizing first animation scene for new [...]

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Some impressive AND cute modeling by Natasha Medvedeva.

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I asked Marcin Cieśla to tell us about his 'Death to Squishies' animation that was featured on BlenderArtists in March. Get ready for the delights and despairs of a one-man animation project which included dancing in front of his phone girl-band style for reference! A stort story about a certain animation. “Death to Squishies” from [...]

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Redefine Concept Art with Animation and AI Guidance using Reallysion's iClone. Hello, I’m Jakub Kaźmierczak, a concept artist specializing in environment concept art and key frames. I have been in the industry for the past 7 years. In my professional career, I work mostly for movies and game cinematics. Some projects being: “Three Body Problem”, [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: Hi everyone, I'm currently running a big sale on all my educational material - 3 video courses and the Blender Secrets e-book. The courses have 50% off and the book 30%. Get them now!

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Global Illumination calculates simulated how light in a scene behaves. It simulates light bouncing around and spreading diffusely by calculating object proximity, angles and more. It gives quite convincing results, but can be slow. James Crowther shows how to optimise it in your scenes for better rendering times. Just yesterday we released another video on [...]

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Marty created this wild roller coaster ride and shares a detailed breakdown on Blender Artists. This is a project I’ve been working on for a while now – an animation of a wild roller coaster ride through a secret bunker hideout in the middle of the ocean! If you’re interested in how I made this [...]

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Robert Rioux offers a free Blender add-on to easily manage background images for modeling. It will automatically set up all views and gives you the possibility to "swap axis" so the the X axis becomes the front view. Itm allows you to adjust all images at the same time too.

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The Blender crew is attending the Annecy Animation Festival again, and is hosting a breakfast session to connect Blender users in the movie industry. As our first 'breakfasts' in 2023 and 2024 were a success, we're doing it again - with a twist! To be able to gather more people, we'll be at the MIFA [...]

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Leo from MediaWay writes: Geometry nodes can be tough to learn, but... now there's an easier way to create beautiful motion graphics in text and models using offset animations. My tutorial shows you how to create some super easy motion graphic effects in Blender without Geometry nodes for both text animation and product animation using [...]

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