r/blender • • 17d ago

News Blender Survey 2026

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128 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 • • 9h ago

Original Content Showcase Pong. My first ever Blender project

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1.2k Upvotes

This is the first thing I ever made in Blender. I came over from Maya after years of doing 3D for film and ads, and wanted to learn Blender properly, so I forced myself to do everything in it except the texturing. Modelling, UVs, lighting and rendering in Cycles, textures in Substance Painter.

It’s a simple studio setup, but it’s the project that made me actually enjoy Blender. Looking at it now I’d change a lot, but it’s still one of my favourites because of what it started.

Edit: To clarify, this is the first thing I made in Blender, years ago. Not a recent project, just a throwback 🙂


r/blender • • 10h ago

Critique My Work inside a pumpkin!!

953 Upvotes

made this one to celebrate the fall- a tad late but alas it came out!!


r/blender • • 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Found blender on a school computer and made this in my digital art class

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oomf gave me the idea of making the autism creature and then i added the background text as well


r/blender • • 3h ago

Need Help! How to know if ai was used in a blender model

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My friend who has never touched blender has made a church in about 5 hours. Even he did have experience, I'm pretty sure it would only be like 2 weeks. Not only did he make a really good church, but this was his second version with colour and third if you ignore colour. So 3 versions in total in 5 hours with very little experience?
Something is definitely off. For this discussion, let's assume his has 2 weeks of experience. He goes to school but does study or do homework, so let's say it's 40 hours a week.


r/blender • • 9h ago

Original Content Showcase Bucket Painting

314 Upvotes

r/blender • • 5h ago

Critique My Work colt more renders

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92 Upvotes

r/blender • • 18h ago

Original Content Showcase 1 and a half hours later, my first donut!

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908 Upvotes

No tutorials, just experimenting and trying things, eventually got this! Probably could've done it about a hundred other ways and gotten better or faster results but that's part of the learning experience. Any tips that you guys might could give for a starter would be greatly appreciated!


r/blender • • 10h ago

Original Content Showcase I created this concept illustration for Netflix

164 Upvotes

r/blender • • 3h ago

Original Content Showcase Traveling spiral

33 Upvotes

5.2 version of the traveling spiral Geometry Nodes setup


r/blender • • 4h ago

Original Content Showcase Trying my luck with just Blender

44 Upvotes

r/blender • • 8h ago

Critique My Work Compositing-Based Painterly Stylization

80 Upvotes

I'm working on a painterly stylization system for Blender, and I'd love any feedback/resources about how to make it look closer to traditional acrylic/oil paint. In particular, I'm looking for ways of adding a 3D canvas effect or adding more depth to the brush strokes.

At the moment almost all of the stylized effect comes from the compositing stage.

The wood and concrete materials and fruit models were sourced from PolyHaven. The flower models were sourced from u/vrschrsts on CGTrader. I modeled the plate, vase, and the stained glass window that the light is coming through.


r/blender • • 11h ago

Original Content Showcase Mimi rigged model NSFW Spoiler

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r/blender • • 7h ago

Original Content Showcase Celestial Vault, Florenaux (me), 3D, 2026

33 Upvotes

r/blender • • 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Dipper | Gravity Falls

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r/blender • • 8h ago

Original Content Showcase Higgs Guitar | Death Stranding 2 Fan Art

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34 Upvotes

Hi!
I made Higgs guitar from Death Stranding 2.

Artstation link with turntable animation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/eggqQP


r/blender • • 14h ago

Original Content Showcase A little dreamcore never hurt anyone

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100 Upvotes

Fun fact I actually had a dream about this weird little liminal party room, so I decided to try my hand at recreating it! Hope you guys enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it. Cheers!


r/blender • • 10h ago

Critique My Work Critique my anime character models, Self taught, 2 Years in Blender

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I was aiming for an industry level 3D character artist to apply and meet the qualification in 3DCG or Game studio. I made this character with basic sketches and gathered multiple references on Pinterest before I started modeling and texturing using Substance painter and Clip studio, for now I am currently learning Unity to check if my models are compatible and to find out more issues to fix them. After that im planning to start making female anime character with your feedback and advice given. I would really appreciate your feedback on my next plan Thankk youuu....

https://nelle3d.artstation.com/
Check my videos rendered of these models and other details


r/blender • • 14h ago

Original Content Showcase Warhammer halberdier

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94 Upvotes

Finished my halberdier character! Modelling, sculpting and rendering done in Blender, texturing in substance painter.

Artstation for more renders: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/2LLKwa


r/blender • • 6h ago

Original Content Showcase I made a Haunted House! (Volume Warning)

19 Upvotes

Modeled this haunted house and then animated the lights to a song I thought fit the vibe


r/blender • • 4h ago

Original Content Showcase 3D Gun Model

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14 Upvotes

r/blender • • 8h ago

Critique My Work I made one model 2 years ago and the other today, try to guess which is which...

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I might have had a good year-long break from creating in blender between them, but even I’ve had a glow-down my skill. I need to relearn how to texture, even though my modeling is at a completely different level now.


r/blender • • 4h ago

Solved Are Edges on Faces Okay?

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Is it ok to extrude a face directly out of another solid face like this? The two faces are going to be treated like separate pieces. The connected edge is solely to ensure they deform together correctly with no worry of creating gaps. The above picture is an example.


r/blender • • 1h ago

Original Content Showcase Blender is awesome. I started 3D modeling a week or so ago and I kinda like it.

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Here is my first finished model using the finalized version of my pipeline.

Base color texture, PBR materials for the goggles and belt and a custom height map for surface details.

Designed for very dark environments with sharp shadows. think Doom 3.

The model is 242 faces.

(I come from a 2D art background, if you're curious.)

It took me about a week and a half since I started learning Blender to put together a solid pipeline I can rely on to achieve consistent results across my models. This one took around 3 hours to make.

There was a bit of troubleshooting along the way, but the workflow is pretty solid now. I can share the pipeline if anyone is interested!


r/blender • • 6h ago

Critique My Work Samurai Wip2

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more progress
follow me on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/art_pixellz/