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Animation Workflow Course

Vallen Koscheev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 15:55:51 +0000

Vallen Koscheev is an Animation Supervisor who has animated on Oscar-nominated and Oscar-winning features. In this course, Vallen teaches the complete workflow he developed and has been using consistently across all the movies he’s worked on. Vallen writes: Hello BlenderNation! Over a decade ago, I started my animation journey right here in Blender, creating short […]

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Video: #2026AD

Bart — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:11:36 +0000

In his latest video, Thomas Kral reflects on the impact of AI on artists. Thomas writes: In the year 2026, a major turning point occurred for many creative people. People who had devoted their entire lives to developing their artistic, aesthetic, and creative skills were suddenly confronted with a new technology that automated a large […]

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Tabs: Browser-Style Tab Management for Blender’s Workspace

Community Reporter — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 06:16:13 +0000

Tabs bring web-browser / game-engine-like tabs to Blender. Several editors sharing one area, each keeping its own state. Add, rename, reorder and close them, drag a tab to another area or tear it off into its own window, and lock the ones a layout depends on.

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Best of Blender Artists: 2026-38

Bart — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 15:55:51 +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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Blender Jobs for September 18, 2026

Bart — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 10:15:00 +0000

Here’s an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [LONG-TERM] Technical Blender Artist for Mobile Game Advertising Technical Art Graduate Program – Vancouver [PAID] Blender Environment Artist Wanted — Exalted Sandbox / Babylon.js Technical Art Graduate Program – Novato Technical Art Graduate Program – Dublin Junior 3D Artist – […]

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Glowing Mushroom Tutorial

Community Reporter — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:51:53 +0000

Let’s dive deep into shader nodes and create a procedural glowing mushroom in Blender.

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Beginner Modelling Blender Tutorial : Model An X-Wing

Community Reporter — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:19:49 +0000

Learn all you need to know to model an X-wing, starting from just the default cube. Chris Bailey covers everything from the ground up and he goes slow to keep things clear and help you follow along.

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SESSIONS: Interior – Six Blender Interior Scenes, Two Hours Each

Community Reporter — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:55:43 +0000

Interior is a project-based course about making beautiful interior renders in Blender, one focused scene at a time. Across six sessions, instructor Sascha Feider builds six complete vignettes from a default scene to a polished final image or animation: a sunlit staircase, a coffee corner, a flowing curtain, a marble colonnade, a cabin with a […]

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11 methods for sharp corners in Blender

Community Reporter — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:00:56 +0000

In this video Blender Secrets looks at 11 methods for keeping corners of 3d models sharp in Blender, and we briefly go over how Normals work.

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Caustify – a free, open-source spectral dispersion path tracer

Community Reporter — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:55:53 +0000

Immineal shares a rendering experiment. Cycles (like most RGB path tracers) approximates chromatic dispersion, the way glass bends different wavelengths by different amounts, by nudging the IOR per RGB channel. That’s a shortcut: real dispersion is a continuous function of wavelength, not three samples of it, and it’s most visible exactly where you’d want it, […]

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