Chris Bailey shows how to model, texture, light and render a ball point pen in Blender.

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A new policy on Superhive will limit product purchases to 12 months of support, with paid upgrades required for newer versions. This article covers the debate that’s been taking place in the Blender community over the past week, following the release of Superhive’s email to a small group of creators about their new Support Periods […]

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Dust Particles+ has always been about a lightweight, procedural way to add atmosphere (and life!) to your scenes without the default Blender particle system headaches. This update pushes things a fair bit further in that direction by introducing… well, procedural life. Gleb Alexandrov writes: We’ve included generators for things like swarming insects, bees and birds. […]

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The current BlenderNation theme is almost 12 years old, and it’s showing 🙈 Not only is the design outdated, but it has also become more ‘noisy’ over time with the addition of extra ads, sidebar content etc. Time for a refresh! What I kept I’ve always really loved the large header at the top of […]

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It’s springtime! Everything starts blooming. What about you? Ready to upgrade your 3D toolkit? With a BlenderKit Full Plan subscription, you gain access to the largest library integrated into Blender. More than 120K assets will be unlocked, and your workflow will skyrocket. You will also do something great for your community. By subscribing, you will [...]

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Ryan King shows us the creation process of his Sunny Spring Garden stylized artwork in Blender.

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3DShaker takes the design from 77 Studio Architecture and takes us through the steps to re-create it in Blender.

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If you want to 3D print some LEGO parts, try out this free add-on Maox. It generates procedural LEGO®-compatible bricks — manifold, print-ready, no Boolean ops needed. Hey everyone! I just released uBrick Generator, a free open-source Blender add-on that generates parametric LEGO®-compatible bricks — fully manifold and ready to slice for 3D printing, with [...]

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3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Build a layered landscape animation inspired by sunset graphics. Explore stacking techniques, offset animation, and clean color composition using procedural control. Happy Noding ... :)

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Polygon Runway shares a commentary rundown of his latest Blender 5.0 90’s PC gaming inspired isometric illustration.

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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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I love it when Blender is used for science. Earlier this week we reported how Blender was used on the cover of Nature, and today we have an amazing story from MohammadHossein Jamshidi, who uses Blender for his research in cosmology. MohammadHossein writes: The early ideas to use Blender for Cosmology were enlightened in my [...]

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Milad Kambar shares his collection of 'tools for real pipelines' that all solved real problems he ran into himself. Over the past months, I've been building tools that solve problems I kept running into in my own production work:  tedious exports, broken pipelines, and repetitive manual tasks. Every tool below was born from a real [...]

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If you want to change Blender's hotkeys to create your own custom keymap, Follow these 8 steps to avoid bugs, headaches, and tears.

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CBaileyFilm writes: In this fun and exciting tutorial, learn a full blender workflow as you model, texture, light and render a pair of dice.

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Joseph Farah shares how he used Blender to illustrate a new article on supernova 'chirping'. Joseph writes: Hi folks! I have some very exciting news! I was the lead author of a study published in Nature, which is the cover of the March 12 issue! You can see it right now if you go to [...]

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The Blender Foundation needs someone to gather and share stories about their projects across Blender websites, social media and other platforms. Blender is looking for a storyteller. Someone who can share and communicate the ongoing projects, our mission and free/open source values to a variety of audiences through a variety of media. Given the great [...]

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Ryan King Art writes: In this beginner tutorial I will teach you the very basics of how to get started with sculpting in Blender.

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Vegetation V6 is a major step forward for the add-on, introducing 2 new categories and 129 new assets, while keeping the core features that made it popular. V6 addds season switching (spring, summer, autumn, winter/snow), HD PBR textures, and very high-quality assets built for photorealistic rendering. With this update, the library now totals nearly 400 [...]

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Poly Haven is working on a video game with the help of community-created assets. We've been publishing free (CC0) 3D assets for the last 10 years thanks to the support of our community on Patreon, and now we’re trying something brand new. Under the pressure of AI-generated content, and with the motivation to prove the [...]

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