Get the Blender Studio's free Brushstroke Tools for Blender

Neat free extension lets you apply painterly brushstrokes to the surface of 3D models while texturing them, and control the strokes procedurally.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2024

Physical Water FX adds good-looking water surfaces in Blender

Promising add-on creates surface water complete with ripples, foam, rain splashes and floating debris. Works with Cycles and Eevee.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024

Download all of the Blenderesse Blender plugins for free

Jesse Miettinen's versatile Geometry Nodes set-ups generate procedural 3D buildings, trees, ivy - and even car animation rigs - inside Blender.

Sunday, October 20th, 2024

DeepMotion rolls out AI text-to-animation service SayMotion 2.4

Browser-based text-to-animation generative AI tool can now be used to create seamless animation cycles, and to retarget animation.

Saturday, October 12th, 2024

Blender 4.3 lets you use Geometry Nodes with Grease Pencil

Check out the new features in Grease Pencil 3, the long-awaited overhaul of Blender's 2D animation toolset, now available in beta builds.

Monday, October 7th, 2024

Free tool: 3DGS Render renders 3D Gaussian Splats inside Blender

Neat free add-on from the developer of Kiri Engine lets you manipulate and render 3DGS scans directly inside Blender.

Saturday, September 28th, 2024

Check out Blender 4.3's new SLIM UV unwrapping system

Try the 'state-of-the-art' new iterative UV unwrapping algorithm available in alpha builds of the open-source 3D software.

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

People Going Places is a free Blender crowds add-on

Lightweight Geometry Nodes setup provides a quick way to add background crowds to scenes for animation or motion graphics work.

Monday, September 23rd, 2024

KeenTools releases FaceTracker for Blender free in beta

Intuitive add-on can generate an animated 3D reconstruction of an actor's head from video footage, for animation. VFX or motion graphics.

Thursday, August 22nd, 2024

DivineCut and DivinePrint simplify creating 3D clothes in Blender

Fast-evolving plugin and its new texturing extension create animation ready clothing for 3D characters via a fast, intuitive workflow.

Wednesday, August 14th, 2024

Blender will support online asset libraries

Future releases of the open-source 3D software will also come pre-configured with a remote library of CC0 brushes, materials and meshes.

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

5 key features in Blender 4.2

Read our pick of the latest features in the open-source 3D software, from new digital sculpting tools and GPU compositing to 'Eevee Next'.

Tuesday, July 16th, 2024

Check out Blender crowd-creation tool Procedural Crowds Pro

Promising add-on for the open-source 3D app generates large animated background crowds from a library of scanned 3D characters.

Monday, July 15th, 2024