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Blender Animation Contest with $1500 in Cash Prizes

Community Reporter — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:55:31 +0000

RenderJuice is running a Blender animation contest around one topic: Speed. Make a 5-30 second Blender animation: a tiny story, a procedural experiment, a simulation, just something funny or anything you want. The only big creative rule is that Blender should be your main creation tool and it should interpret the contest topic. There’s $1,500 […]

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All Loop Tools now native in Blender 5.3

Community Reporter — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:36 +0000

All the Loop Tools are now native in Blender 5.3 beta, so how do they work and are they better or worse than the add-on version?

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Creating A Mech Girl Character – Part 2

Community Reporter — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:21:29 +0000

This is the second part of Daniel Orji’s series, showing his process for blocking out clothing and accessories.

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Low Poly Treasure Chest

Ryan King Art — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:00:52 +0000

In this three part beginner Blender tutorial series, Ryan King will show you how to create this stylized low poly treasure chest scene.

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CEO – AI-powered lip-sync

Community Reporter — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:55:00 +0000

UNOMi has officially brought its AI-powered lip-sync technology to Blender. Designed for animators, game developers and studios, UNOMi automatically analyzes dialogue and generates character lip-sync animation, reducing the amount of manual work traditionally required for facial animation. The Blender integration currently supports English, Spanish, Mandarin, Portuguese, French, German, Korean and Russian, with additional languages planned. […]

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Blender Jobs for October 9, 2026

Bart — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Graphiste 2D/3D (H/F) Technical Director, Applied AI | Game Dev, R&D | Remote Senior Animation Engineer | Unity3D | Remote | Stylized Games For more jobs, look here.

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Best of Blender Artists: 2026-41

Bart — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:15:27 +0000

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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Stylized Robot Tutorial

Community Reporter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:55:26 +0000

Let’s create a cute stylized robot in Blender and check out some new materials in the latest version.

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Add-on for mesh reconstruction with Unrealizex

Community Reporter — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:21:20 +0000

Unrealizex does 3D reconstruction without using generative AI. Oscar Baechler writes: Learn how to set up UnrealizeX’s Blender extension. You can then use UnrealizeX directly in Blender’s interface. Unrealizex does 3D reconstruction without using generative AI. This video demonstrates our one-shot process on a CC-0 photo of a pilot helmet. Some of our pipeline tools […]

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Free 100+ PBR Materials (Scans)

Community Reporter — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:17:53 +0000

100+ high-quality PBR material scans availableunder a royalty-free license. Balint Barlai writes: There is no sign-up or account required. You can browse, select, and download the materials directly from our library. Everything is released under a Standard Royalty-Free license. You are fully cleared to use these materials in commercial projects, freelance work, renders, and games […]

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