Free tools: Render Manager and Light Editor for Blender

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy add-ons streamline the process of managing lights and render layers within complex production scenes.

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

Chaos releases Beta 2 of the new V-Ray for Blender

Updated: New free public beta build of the long-awaited Blender integration for V-Ray based on the V-Ray 7 core is now available

Friday, February 7th, 2025

Free tool: Animation Render Time Estimator for Blender

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

These simple free tools convert Maya shaders to Blender

VFX artist Robert Rioux's handy open-source tools convert the aiStandardSurface shader to Blender's Principled BSDF.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025

Master World Building using Blender and Photoshop

Discover how to create story-rich environment concept art for games and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's new tutorial.

Monday, January 13th, 2025

Check out Blender's experimental anime rendering builds

New non-photorealistic rendering branch of the open-source 3D app is being developed with input from anime firm DillonGoo Studios.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Cell Fluids 2.0 for Blender is out

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Blender add-on ClayPencil turns 2D animation into 3D 'claymation'

Neat free Geometry Nodes setup lets you create 3D animation using 2D workflows in Blender's Grease Pencil toolset.

Friday, December 13th, 2024

3DGS Render 2.0 now lets you edit 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender

3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on lets you edit 3DGS scan data inside Blender, and apply simple animated effects.

Tuesday, November 26th, 2024

KeenTools releases FaceTracker for Blender

Much-anticipated facial mocap plugin for Blender gets its official release. Now supports animation retargeting to Rigify rigs.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Check out Blender crowd animation add-on Population 2

Promising lightweight add-on for creating 3D crowds for animation or visualization now lets you paint crowd characters into the scene.

Thursday, November 21st, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.3

Now available: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Free tool: Reallusion's Blender Auto Setup plugin

Newly rebranded plugin transfers 3D characters, shaders, rigs and animation from Character Creator and iClone to Blender.

Monday, November 18th, 2024