Get VFX artist Thomas Marcos' free Blender clouds shader
Lightweight Procedural Clouds Shader generates realistic clouds in production conditions, and works with the Cycles or Eevee renderers.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Eevee
3DGS Render 3.0 lets you paint 3D Gaussian Splats in Blender
3D scanning firm Kiri Innovations' free add-on now lets you paint onto 3DGS data inside Blender, including through texture images.
Friday, March 28th, 2025
Check out new open-source 3D character generator CharMorph
Promising free Blender add-on generates rigged 3D characters with skin materials and hair, suitable for games, animation or VFX work.
Monday, March 24th, 2025
5 key features in Blender 4.4
Check out the key changes in the latest version of the open-source 3D app, including important updates to animation and the CPU compositor.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025
Get 6 free smoke and fire effects sequences from FX BackPack
Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.
Sunday, January 12th, 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
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
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
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
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
Lightmap releases HDR Light Studio 8.2.2
Real-time lighting design software can now 'paint' highlights and shadows directly into interactive renders from Blender.
Wednesday, July 17th, 2024