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#News#Environment Art#Houdini#Maya#SpeedTree#ZBrush#Nuke Rebecca Ma shared the astounding environment created as part of her studies in asset creation for film. Rebecca Ma shared her beautiful Garden of Dragons environment, made as an advanced term final project for a course in asset creation for film. The piece was inspired by Dao Vi's concept art with giant dragon-shaped fountains by a mountain spring.

#News#3D Art#Blender#Cinematics#Concept Art Henrik Evensen developed concept art and LookDev for the show using Blender. Digital Artist Henrik Evensen showcased his work for the first season of Stranger Things: Tales from '85, revealing how he crafted concepts and LookDev for eerie forest scenes in Blender. The artist developed the general look and feel of trees, bark textures, forests, and snow, working with Production Designer Ben Plouffe.

#News#3D Art#Blender#Unreal Engine#Tutorial Beno Raistrick released a 5-part beginner-friendly tutorial series on transferring real-life hand-painted textures into 3D spaces. Beno Raistrick made a 5-part YouTube tutorial series showing how to make textures for 3D scenes from watercolor paintings. If you prefer acrylic paint, oil pastels, or wax crayons instead, the same principles apply, so the choice is yours.

#News#3D Art#Character Art Find your favorite character in adorable clay-style works by Crisppyboat. 3D Illustrator and Animator Crisppyboat, whose amazing fan art for Kingdom Hearts, Animal Crossing, The Amazing Digital Circus, and more, we featured before, showcased a series of new cool works crafted in his signature faux Claymation style. As with his previous works, the artist used Blender to create these 3D recreations.

#News#3D Art#Animation#Blender#Character Art See how Nagyunagi created the intricate hairstyle in Blender. This 3D hair modeling time-lapse shows how 3D Artist and CG Animator Nagyunagi created a braided side ponytail, compressing a week of work into a one-minute video. The artist used Blender to create the hair setup. Nagyunagi explained that they use a single-color shader and regularly check the silhouette from different angles while modeling.

#Interviews#Blender#Marvelous Designer#ZBrush Ilya Oskanyan explains how he saved time creating assets for the Heart of the Forest project, discusses the importance of finding the right focal length to make the scene look monumental without losing the details, and talks us through the tedious yet rewarding process of sculpting realistic bas-reliefs in 3D. My name is Ilya Oskanyan, and I'm a Concept Artist currently working in the film industry.

Just earlier this month, it was barely managing to run at 1-2 FPS. PlayStation emulation is notoriously difficult, and we're still not quite at the perfect state with PS3 and PS4 emulators, yet something must have been in the water this year, because PS5 emulation has been advancing at an incredible pace. Back in July, we reported on early progress in PS5 emulation, covering SharpEmu and KytyPS5.

Check out the BCON26 presentation on the Android Platform Support project, then download the official APK and give it a try yourself. Last week, Blender Conference 2026 took place in the heart of Amsterdam, bringing together Blender artists, developers, and contributors from around the world. As usual, there were plenty of talks, informal meetings, and time to hang out with the Blender community. Since then, lots of cool snippets from the conference have been popping up online.

#News#Marketplace#Blender Get the Full Plan and add-ons at a discounted price for a limited time. Blendkit, formerly known as BlenderKit, offers an extensive asset library seamlessly integrated into Blender, and it has reached another major milestone: the platform now features 150,000 assets. This achievement is made possible by 2,485 creators who created 3D models, materials, brushes, scenes, HDRIs, node groups, printables, and Blender add-ons.

#News#Video Games#IndieDev Every word you spell becomes a tower with its own unique abilities in Towers of Babble. Towers of Babble by Everybody House Games mixes a classic word game with tower defense. Each noun becomes a building you can place on the map, while you gather resources and build towers to hold off waves of enemies. Each building also has different stats and abilities depending on the word you use.