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set dressing

Inexpensive add-on lets you dress environments quickly in Blender by spawning in 3D assets and letting them settle naturally under gravity.

Wednesday, June 25th, 2025

Master professional CG lighting workflows with former Blizzard lighting lead Graham Cunningham's tutorial for The Gnomon Workshop.

Saturday, June 14th, 2025

'Biggest update yet' to the popular free Blender modifier adds 20 new tools, including generators for doors, windows and bolts.

Tuesday, May 13th, 2025

GPU renderer and real-time visualization tool gets new terrain sculpting and phasing animation systems, plus 3D Gaussian Splatting.

Wednesday, October 30th, 2024

Check out the new features in the GPU renderer, including the new AI Enhancer, Sunlight Caustics and better translucent materials.

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

Check out the new features in the real-time ray tracing renderer, including the D5 Scatter tool - and new AI tools, including Text to 3D.

Friday, April 26th, 2024

Current state-of-the-art AI model generates 3D assets from text prompts 'near instantly', even on a single previous-gen GPU.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024

New product for 'rapid arch viz storytelling' will work with V-Ray and Enscape, and is due later this year. Here's what we know about it so far.

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Neat plugin lets users draw outlines in the viewport and have them filled automatically with naturally randomized sets of 3D plants.

Monday, February 19th, 2024

New $10 add-on brings simple Houdini-style physics-based scene layout workflows to the open-source 3D software.

Thursday, December 28th, 2023

New features in the USD-native layout and look dev app include shader network transfer to Katana.

Monday, July 24th, 2023

Popular modifier gets new tool to package your Geometry Nodes set-ups into custom Blender add-ons.

Saturday, April 29th, 2023

Neat new plugin quickly generates variant looks for 3D models, 3D scenes - or even 3D characters.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2023