Gleb Alexandrov just released a two-part tutorial on lighting 3D environments in Eevee, using a photoscanned monastery dungeon to show why lighting a space is a different game than lighting an object. Gleb writes: In this lighting tutorial dedicated to lighting the Monastery Dungeon environment in EEVEE – you’ll learn: A step-by-step workflow for building […]

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Tintline is a Blender add-on for texturing low poly models with one small colour atlas. You click a swatch and the selected faces get its colour; the whole model ends up on one texture and one material. Vojtech Daubner writes: Version 2.2 adds auto shade: select the model, click once, and every part gets its […]

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One of the biggest friction points for 2D artists in Blender has been jumping between Draw Mode and Edit Mode just to tweak a line, along with the lack of intuitive canvas controls. Mumu Mundo writes: Blender 5.3 tackles this head-on: Canvas Flip & View Roll: Viewers are calling this a game-changer—allowing traditional digital illustrators […]

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PocketCam is a Blender add-on that turns your phone into a real-time virtual camera. Pick up your phone and you’re holding the camera inside your Blender scene. PocketCam uses a custom-built 6 DoF tracker: your phone’s gyro captures every turn and tilt, while its camera follows you as you walk through the room. Crouch for […]

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Chris Bailey teaches us step by step how to model the master sword from the legend of Zelda. We’ll start with the default cube and a reference image and use the basic modelling tools in blender to create the final sword. Channel and Patreon members will then get to go on to learn how to […]

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Rebuilding 3DS Max… in Blender! Jake Denham used AI to build 3DS Max on top of Blender – and it’s faster than the original! Jake writes: This is a personal project. It’s not a product, it’s not for sale and you can’t download it. I’ve used 3ds Max for 18 years. Everyone keeps telling me […]

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Adding colours in the early stages of a sculpt helps you visualize it better. In this video, Daniel Orji shows his workflow for using polypaint.

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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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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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