Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.1! 🎉

Rock solid, feature-packed, and a performance beast on all fronts, from animation to modeling and compositing.

🎁What's New: https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-1/

📺Watch Recap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3xoRwwN6I

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New job opening! 📣 Blender is looking for a Communications Lead to join the team. Help share exciting news about Blender development, Blender Studio productions, and everything happening around the Blender project and its community.🧡

Read more and apply at https://www.blender.org/jobs/communications-lead/ #b3d #jobs

Hey everyone, new tutorial! How to Light 3D Portraits in Blender. Full article and a video. 4 levels of difficulty: from one light to full cinematic rig. Many lighting theory nuggets to be found. #b3d #blender3d #mastoArt

https://www.creativeshrimp.com/character-lighting-techniques.html

Huge thanks to Yaw Onyina for the permission to use his astonishing Tribal Character 3D model (more precisely, .blend file) for this lighting tutorial.
https://www.artstation.com/yaw_cg

Your Blender LTS just got better! 🚀

🔶 Blender 4.5.7 LTS fixes 19 issues present in the previous version.
🔹 Blender 4.2.18 LTS fixes 4 issues.

As usual, updating is highly recommended. Download and read the changelog at blender.org/lts

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Godot 4.6 is out, and all about your flow!

This release puts you and your workflow first with the new Modern theme, flexible docks, and dozens of quality of life improvements. Plus major upgrades: Jolt Physics by default, revamped IK, better reflections, and more.

Less wrestling with UI. More making games. #GodotEngine #Godot

https://godotengine.org/releases/4.6/

It’s time to update your Blender LTS! 🚀

🔶 Blender 4.5.6 LTS addresses 60 issues since 4.5.5
🔹 Blender 4.2.17 LTS addresses 8 issues since 4.2.16

📖 Download and see what's changed: https://blender.org/download/lts/

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Version 0.6.1 of the free SDF Modeler 3D editor has been released, with a range of additions and fixes.

Changelog and download:

https://sascha-rode.itch.io/sdf-modeler
(Available for Win / MacOS / Linux)

Follow Sascha, the developer, on Mastodon:

@sascharode1986

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