Blender 🔶

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

The Blender Benchmark has been updated to support Blender 5.0 (and soon 5.1)!

Download the Blender Benchmark: https://opendata.blender.org/ #b3d

Ever wished you could put the universe in a box? Well, Blender can help! 🌌 Cosmology with Geometry Nodes, a new User Story by Ph.D student MohammadHossein Jamshidi.

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/

#b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory

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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Who knew that Blender could help us study the stars? 🌌 In this new User Story, Ph.D student MohammadHossein Jamshidi explains how he used Geometry Nodes for his research in cosmology.

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/cosmology-with-geometry-nodes/

#b3d #geonodes #cosmology #research #userstory

Make BCON Austin possible this April! The Blender event for North America needs 250 more attendees to happen. Spread the word! Student discounts are available.

🎟️ Tickets: https://bconna.org/2026/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVBccW7H14

#b3d #bconna #bcon

Meet the splash for the upcoming Blender 5.1!

🎨 Featuring artwork from Singularity, by @BlenderStudio@mastodon.social https://studio.blender.org/projects/singularity/

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📣 New user story! Creating "Il Baracchino”, an Annie-nominated adult mixed-media series made entirely in Blender by Megadrago. https://www.blender.org/user-stories/creating-il-baracchino-italys-first-adult-animated-series-made-with-blender/

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Welcome Arrowhead Game Studios as a Corporate Gold sponsor of the Blender Foundation’s Development Fund! https://fund.blender.org

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It's that time of the year again!

Have a look at (some of) the Blender projects to look forward to in 2026 👀 https://www.blender.org/development/projects-to-look-forward-to-in-2026/

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Blender Foundation is thrilled to announce that Netflix Animation Studios is joining the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron.

This support will be dedicated towards general Blender core development, to continuously improve content creation tools for individuals and teams working in media and entertainment-related workflows.

https://fund.blender.org/

#b3d #devfund

Welcome Dell to the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Gold sponsor, supported by NVIDIA!

This enables general Blender development, with the goal of continuously improving content creation tools that will benefit the entire community.

https://fund.blender.org

#b3d #DevFund #delltech #Delltechnologies #NVIDIA

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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BCON returns to North America on 13-14 Apr, 2026!

The event will take place in downtown Austin - TX on the iconic 6th Street. Get your tickets here: https://bconna.org/2026/

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💫 Happy 2026! And a message from the Blender Foundation board: https://www.blender.org/news/a-message-from-the-blender-foundation-board/

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Happy birthday, Blender! 🎂

Today, your own 3D software turns 2⁵! Here's to many more years of Freedom to Create.

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