r/blender • • 22d ago

News Blender Survey 2026

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131 Upvotes

Hey!
Blender Foundation just launched its annual survey to better understand the user community and determine the future direction of the Blender project.

It's anonymous and quick, only takes 5 minutes to complete.

https://www.blender.org/survey

Thanks in advance for participating! Your input will help shape the future of Blender 🧔


r/blender • • 5h ago

Original Content Showcase Recreation of the "Hiss Effect" from control in blender

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1.4k Upvotes

r/blender • • 3h ago

Critique My Work Behind the scenes of an indie film: they told me ā€œjust animate the scan.ā€ The scan:

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692 Upvotes

The original was so heavy Blender wouldn’t even open it. This is after a ZRemesher pass, and it’s still 2.5 million polys. Face is covered for privacy, but honestly you couldn’t tell it was a person anyway. Me vs. a raw body scan, round one.


r/blender • • 6h ago

Discussion The AI Hypocrisy of This Sub

1.1k Upvotes

Hi, I’ve been a programmer (both as a hobby and professionally) for close to 30 years and was also a contributor to Blender itself. It’s disheartening to see that this community which is rightfully critical of ā€œvisualā€ gen AI when it destroys their job or hobby (and outright bans AI pictures). Cheers and upvotes AI-generated code/scripts/plugins, etc. It’s absurdly hypocritical to read a post complaining about ā€œFeels like AI is everywhere now and real artworks get buried,ā€ and then, 3 posts later, see a vibecoded plugin with 1,000+ upvotes. Sorry, but this just feels sad.


r/blender • • 3h ago

Original Content Showcase One of the parts Im really proud of is the leg, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out the pieces. 3D Model made by me

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182 Upvotes

r/blender • • 2h ago

Original Content Showcase 3D edit that I did to practice with graph editor cause I wanted smoother camera movement

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141 Upvotes

r/blender • • 5h ago

Original Content Showcase Rollin’ Down The Mountain

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190 Upvotes

Here she comes


r/blender • • 9h ago

Original Content Showcase Haven't done this in a long time!

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287 Upvotes

r/blender • • 1d ago

Original Content Showcase Making some PS2 Characters

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3.5k Upvotes

r/blender • • 23h ago

Need Help! Mastery of Blender?

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2.0k Upvotes

What exactly is the level of mastery required to do something like this? If I already have a character model could I do something like this with them? I’m attempting to get into 3.D art because I think it’ll be easier to animate and so far have able to make a character using heavy reference from a BJD doll I was able to acquire, regardless if the clothes are assets or handmade all you have to do to add physics is just add extra key points or rigging or something right?

Please help me find out how difficult this really is if you’re a beginner especially if my character is a lot more plain than the one shown in the video.


r/blender • • 8h ago

Original Content Showcase Cartoon car ZAZ 968A

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141 Upvotes

A cartoon car ZAZ 968A, for a personal animation project that will be shown soon. Here's a fun animation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/dLLww1


r/blender • • 6h ago

Original Content Showcase pool vfx shot

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74 Upvotes

i made this in blender. scene was tracked with omniscent on ios. i know the animation is a little rough (probably because this isn’t generally physically possible) but im proud of the lighting and compositing


r/blender • • 4h ago

Original Content Showcase What do you think guys?

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I must say.
This is FINALLY! A finished project

And oh boy! am I not proud!

For the bored:
-My friend made a website, one of the tabs is an overlay of a CRT where you can play a playlist (the last image). Now, out of boredom and being cratively insane, I want to upgrade that tab, more interactive! So I started by finding the original model of the CRT (was a bit hard, but again: creatively insane). And made a model of the crt, and TODAY DEAR FRIENDS! I AM DONE, with the modelling part... I still need to learn Three.js so the CRT could be accesible, but that's later problem

In conclusion! I must say: the process was so annoying... but I loved every second of it.

What do you think?


r/blender • • 13h ago

Original Content Showcase Medieval marketplace building

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271 Upvotes

97% done in blender, the rest is grading and tiny overpaint corrections. Hope you like it!


r/blender • • 21h ago

Solved How do they do that? Like what is that

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970 Upvotes

Edit: Turns out I just didn't know about the 'On Cage'. Here I was just losing my mind over the curved wireframe, and you guys are writing a whole PhD thesis on topology haha


r/blender • • 12h ago

Original Content Showcase My spiederverse's style attempt

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171 Upvotes

Hi everybody, this is my attempt to use some of the spiderverse techniques, rendered in Eevee and post processing in Photoshop

If you like my work I would appreciate a like on Instagram also 😊😊 https://www.instagram.com/p/DfB5fsTxJc4/?obrf=YTBmMTAwY25odHpr


r/blender • • 2h ago

Original Content Showcase This is a way to keep my sanity.

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26 Upvotes

r/blender • • 2h ago

Original Content Showcase GTA 6 Trailers inspired me to do my own GTA character in Blender Cycles

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22 Upvotes

Haven't done a lot of personal work in months, all this AI stuff what not. I've been away from 3D unless I've had a project that pays. Lately trying to get back to it, and seeing GTA kind of reminded me why I went to games/movie business in the first place, so inspired by that I kind of just challenged myself to do a character that I think would fit the GTA world. Still unfinished, I was thinking of also doing the body but appreciate any feedback on the head since I'm probably already blind to the mistakes :D


r/blender • • 1d ago

Free Tools & Assets Addon: Zip Ties in Blender Nodes

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1.7k Upvotes

Inspired by a comfy plugin I used Codex to port it for Blender. Hold Z, draw a line and put your noodles in a zip tie. Works in geo nodes and shader nodes.

Try it here: Github Page


r/blender • • 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Life Finds A Way šŸ¤—

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This older render of mine was inspired by something similar I have seen on Pinterest šŸ™‚

Everything (except the egg, which is a freebie from SketchFab) was modeled and textured in Blender by me some time ago. Rendered in Cycles and postprocessed in Affinity Photo.

Cheers ya'll 😊


r/blender • • 7h ago

Paid Product/Service Promotion From floor plan to finished house, right inside Blender

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35 Upvotes

My non-destructive in-house editor is now available on Superhive > https://superhivemarket.com/products/home?num=4&src=new


r/blender • • 13h ago

Paid Product/Service Promotion Made this Doctor Doom model, fully rigged with cloth sim

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97 Upvotes

Spent 3 months on this one, modelled and rigged on blender and textured on Adobe substance painter. Its available on Gumroad and Cgtrader


r/blender • • 5h ago

Original Content Showcase classroom

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21 Upvotes

r/blender • • 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Burning paper

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First attempt at coupling fire/fluid solver with Soft body with material destruction.