BlenderDay & Summer School 2025 return to Mannheim
BlenderDay and Summer School take over Mannheim July 25–27 featuring a keynote by Laura Körting and game‑focused workshops.
Scaling New Heights: Blender Users Summit on the Blender Mountain
On May 24, 2025, Blender enthusiasts will gather in Wiggensbach, Germany, to ascend the Blender mountain together.
How to Persuade Competing VFX Studios to Cooperate
How can you get a number of companies that are in extreme competition with each other and, therefore, do not trust each other to work together? You introduce an independent third organization in which all competitors are jointly involved.
Blender 4.1 goes into detail
The Blender release cycle consists of three new versions of the software per year. The first release is usually characterised by new features. The reason for this is that the third and final release is a Long Term Support (LTS) version, which is supplied with bug fixes for another two years.
Blender: An upgrade for our particle system – We lay pipes!
In issue 23:04|05 we learnt how to create a particle system with the new Simulation Nodes in Blender 3.6. In Blender 4.0, an interesting new function has been added that allows us to connect a series of points via curves. That would be a nice feature upgrade for our custom build. In addition, Cycles can now do light linking, which allows us to set the scene perfectly.
Your own particle system with simulation nodes
The Digital Production logo has been through a lot recently. It was thrown in Houdini with a wet towel and turned to earth in Tyflow. And now it is
set on fire in Blender - where will it end?
Performance across the board in Blender 3.6 LTS
Blender 3.6 is the last release before the big jump to 4.0 and again with Long Term Support (LTS). Important work on the substructure has been continued, so that a leap in performance is noticeable across almost all areas. Other areas such as the viewport compositor have been completed and Cycles now supports significantly more hardware. However, this does not mean that the developers have skimped on new features. The Geometry Nodes can now finally run simulations, the Video Sequence Editor has been given a new retiming tool and there is much more to discover.
Photos of skyscrapers: An asset with Blender Geometry Nodes
Blender 3.5 comes with assets as standard for the first time. To keep the download size small, these are Geometry Nodes setups. Reason enough to create such an asset yourself and add it to your
and add it to your private tool collection.
Hey you, are you ready for the latest update of Blender? With Blender 3.5, the Blender Foundation brings an improved hair system and built-in hair assets, support for vector displacement maps, a viewport compositor and a new timing mode for Grease Pencil, improvements to the Pose Library and much more.
Making-of: Spring
Blender is a beacon project in the field of open source computer graphics. One of the reasons for its success is the open movies, in which the realisation of a specific project goes hand in hand with the development of the software. This concept can be traced back to the time when Blender was still an in-house solution from the Dutch studio NeoGeo. Back then, it was quite normal for artists and developers to work together in one place. Ultimately, it was the experience gained back then that led us to continue working on animation projects - even after Blender became open source. However, with a different sign.