Fast Blur with Animated Radius(aras-p.info)
28 points by luu | 3 comments
Blog post by Aras Pranckevičius describing Smol Gaussian, a fast blur technique supporting animated radius, motivated by Blender compositor's slow Fast Blur mode.
#blender on Hacker News
12 stories tagged blender, newest first.
Blender 5.2 LTS(blender.org)
367 points by makizar | 148 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.2 LTS, which currently returns a 404 "no longer here" error page.
Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron(blender.org)
480 points by vidyesh | 96 comments
Blender Foundation press release announcing Netflix Animation Studios has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron.
Blender 5.0(blender.org)
957 points by FrostKiwi | 309 comments
Blender.org release page for Blender 5.0, the open-source 3D creation suite; the captured page shows only the site header with no content loaded.
Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO(cgchannel.com)
361 points by cma | 72 comments
CG Channel news article reporting that Blender founder Ton Roosendaal will step down as chairman and CEO of the Blender Foundation, announced at Blender Conference 2025.
LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers(threedle.github.io)
410 points by simonpure | 173 comments
Project page for LL3M, a University of Chicago research system where large language models write Blender code to create and iteratively edit 3D models.
Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool(blender.org)
705 points by babuloseo | 234 comments
Blender 4.4 release page highlighting improved animation workflow, modeling, a new sculpt brush, smoother video editing, and over 700 bug fixes.
Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar(reuters.com)
694 points by boguscoder | 126 comments
Reuters news report that the animated film 'Flow', made using Blender, won the Oscar for best animated feature in 2025.
BlenderGPT(blendergpt.org)
340 points by handfuloflight | 153 comments
Landing page for BlenderGPT, an AI tool that generates textured 3D models from text or image prompts in about 20 seconds for import into Blender.
I accidentally Blender VSE(aras-p.info)
483 points by bangonkeyboard | 91 comments
Aras Pranckevičius blogs about how he started contributing code and performance improvements to Blender's Video Sequence Editor.
Blender 16yo winner of UK young animator of the year(younganimator.uk)
1500 points by countrymile | 217 comments
Young Animator of the Year UK 2023 winner page for Best Animation, age 15-18, featuring an embedded video of the winning animation.
Blender 4.0 release notes(wiki.blender.org)
608 points by TangerineDream | 198 comments
Blender developer wiki page for the Blender 4.0 release notes (released November 14, 2023), listing sections like animation, geometry nodes, modeling, and sculpting.