Grease Pencil New Features
11 December 2025
Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grea...
Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 8 December 2025
10 December 2025
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Manual & UI Translations Cleanup: Removal of Inactive, Empty Translations Modules & Projects 2025-12-02 User Inter...
Generate Minecraft Maps in Blender
10 December 2025
In this tutorial you'll learn how to generate Minecraft-like worlds inside of Blender using a free add-on. Get the Minecraft Generator here. Source...
Create Stylized Pine Trees Using Blender 5 new Array Modifiers and Grease Pencil
10 December 2025
Thanks to Blender 5.0's new Array Modifier, Dad's Castle shares a different approach to creating stylized pine trees using grease pencil brushes and the free “Grease Pencil to Curves” Blender extensio...
A Journey through PAPERWORLD
8 December 2025
Take a quiet tour around a wonderful world with Viral Chaudhari's Paperworld. A project to emulate paper craft virtually in 3D. I wanted the train to run naturally. In spite of animating the whole tra...
fxpodcast: Scott Stokdyk and Fantastic Four: First Steps
10 December 2025
VFX supervisor Scott Stokdyk unpacks the visual effects of the latest Fantastic Four film, including how the team approached the film as three huge challenges....
SIGGRAPH Asia 2025 : sessions we’re looking forward to
5 December 2025
A quick look at some of the presentations we've highlighted at the upcoming SIGGRAPH Asia in Hong Kong....
Wētā FX & AWS partner on artist-first AI tools
2 December 2025
Could this partnership of Wētā FX & AWS be a turning point for creativity, artist-driven, and responsibility in AI VFX?...
Writing the book on cinematic immersion
1 December 2025
A new powerful guide that shows filmmakers how to craft truly cinematic, emotionally powerful stories in Apple’s new immersive spatial format....
VFXShow 301: Frankenstein
19 November 2025
In this episode of The VFXShow, Matt Wallin, Jason Diamond, and Mike Seymour dive into Guillermo del Toro’s long-awaited passion project: Frankenstein....
Join Andreas Deja at ‘Mushka’ Streaming Launch Party on December 15
11 December 2025
Enter the free raffle to snag your spot at the upcoming gathering in Burbank celebrating the global VOD release of the iconic Disney legend’s directorial debut – and win a day pass to CTNX 2026 as wel...
Chris Lavis Talks ‘The Girl Who Cried Pearls’
11 December 2025
The Oscar-nominated filmmaker discusses his and Maciek Szczerbowski’s latest stop-motion tour de force, how the tough decision to cut 3 minutes was the right call, and how a ‘beautiful film’ is easily...
WEBTOON Announces 2026 Creator Program Expansion
11 December 2025
A new suite of programs will empower more Creators with expanded monetization opportunities and international creator engagement; Creator Residency will roll out in 2026....
Shorts in Focus: McKinley Benson’s ‘Two Ships’
11 December 2025
Writer/director McKinley Benson, writer/producer Mackenzie Benson, and EP Jodi Benson talk about the beauty of the ordinary, like sticky notes left on a refrigerator, and how little moments between tw...
Shorts in Focus: Andrés Palma’s ‘Shimmer’
11 December 2025
The 3D animated film, produced at Mexico’s Escena Animation Studio, tells the story of shipwrecked family whose father’s efforts to secure their rescue blinds him to his neglect and the mistrust he fo...
Photorealistic Food Renders // Patrick 4D
5 November 2024
Behind The Renders: An exclusive Octane Artist Spotlight with "Patrick 4D", known for his stunningly realistic and delicious-looking digital food renders. The post Photorealistic Food Renders // Patri...
Behind the Scenes of ‘Raised by Wolves’
14 November 2023
Much to fans’ disappointment, Max’s “Raised by Wolves” was canceled a while back, but Ridley Scott’s critically acclaimed sci-fi series remains popular, and for good reason. The post Behind the Scene...
Crafting A Map of Middle Earth with C4D and Leather
4 September 2023
A behind-the-scenes look at a new film about artificial intelligence by the creators of Chef’s Table. Anyone who has watched a lot of science fiction knows it’s never a good idea to get on AI’s bad si...
Formula 1 Meets 3D
16 August 2023
Hailing from the Netherlands, young and ambitious 3D artist Tim Kikkert has been making waves in the world of 3D. With a strong passion for animation and filmmaking, he has spent the past four years w...
The Birth of an Epic Universe
20 July 2023
With thousands of games released every year, it takes a standout trailer to capture the attention of inundated video game consumers. But the team at Resight, a Tbilisi, Georgia-based VFX studio renown...
Message in a Bottle: Martin Engh & Brikk Channel Don Bluth for Infinitum Holiday Spot
11 December 2025
Director Martin Engh at Oslo prodco ADP and Stockholm animation house Brikk craft a sobering holiday spot for Infinitum, the Norwegian non-profit responsible for the country's recycling system for pla...
Benoit Marzouvanlian & Swanside Stop Making Sense for Mob Links
11 December 2025
Director Benoit Marzouvanlian and Paris prodco Soldats link up with the animation/VFX team at Swanside for a two-minute hallucinogenic escapade entitled It Will Make Sense (but it won't) for French st...
Strange Beast Signs Rudo for UK, Europe, and US Representation
11 December 2025
Form the release: Strange Beast, a Passion Pictures company, announces its representation of Buenos Aires-based Rudo for the UK, Europe and US. [Watch] The post Strange Beast Signs Rudo for UK, Europ...
Motion North Returns March 26-27 With Two Days of Inspiration
10 December 2025
Motion North returns in 2026 for it's first two-day celebration on March 26-27 taking over Freight Island in Manchester. Expect talks, workshops, discussions, play, exploration, food, drinks, and more...
Chris Carboni “Your Memories Remember You” Trailer
10 December 2025
Brooklyn-based director/CD Chris Carboni just released this wonderfully off-kilter musical trailer for Your Memories Remember You, his new adult animated anthology series merging black comedy with sur...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Cost Its Developers Less Than $10 Million
11 December 2025
Do we need any more proof that AAA studios' bloated spending is pointless?...
Creating Animated Painterly Forest Using SpeedTree, Substance 3D, & UE5
11 December 2025
Anastasia Kasyanik talked to us about her unfinished personal project with beautiful hand-painted forest scenes, explaining how she crafted the picturesque environments with SpeedTree, Substance 3D Pa...
Breakdown: Old Phone with History Created in 3D
11 December 2025
Alexander Golovko shared the workflow of his Old Phone project, showing how he made the prop look "alive" and how he conveyed its fate and history through wear and tear....
Beautifully Detailed Picturesque Fortress-City Created in 3D
11 December 2025
Max Bedulenko used Blender to enrich his Velvet Road world....
Build Crowded & Charming Urban Dioramas In This Relaxing Game
11 December 2025
ShantyTown is all about finding beauty in everyday chaos....