Blender 2.8 release fever

Joachim Bornemann is a one of a kind 3D artist. He specialized in modeling string musical instruments and computer components among many other things. All his marvelous work is shared for free in the collective spirit of Blender. In the interview, he talks about his ideology and creative process.

Inverse subdivision snapping? Never heard about that? Us neither. Let's find out what it is.

The Blender Conference 2023 took place during October in Amsterdam and we were proud to participate.

The year 2023 was amazing. So many great things happened in BlenderKit. We want to celebrate the highlights with our awesome community.

Edgar Bullon is a photographer, focused on nature photogrammetry. He creates challenging yet captivating photoscans of mountain peaks, rocks and atmosphere. In the interview, he talks about his passions and work process.

We just dropped the version 3.8.2, and it's so lit, even our bugs wanted to stick around. You can update in the add-on preferences, or download .zip from our page.

Learn how to use BlenderKit with step-by-step tutorial.

Join the BlenderKit community on our brand new Discord server!

Ozgen Karagol Arslan is an architect and an Archviz artist. She is the co-founder of the wonderful database ShareTextures. In the interview, she discusses her projects, aspirations and business philosophy.

We're excited to roll out BlenderKit version 3.8.1, a brand new update steeped in enhancements and squashed bugs.

We’re excited to introduce to you the latest update BlenderKit 3.8.0. With an array of enhancements and bug fixes, this release has been fine-tuned to ensure a seamless, intuitive, and robust user experience.

Soheil Mahmoudi is an inspiring CG artist. His 3D scenes are packed with incredibly realistic details of vivid nature and cozy architecture. Read more about his 3D journey in our interview. This interview was conducted by our colleague and feminist artist Alma Lilly Rayner.

Ghazal Ramezan is an amazing 3D freelance artist. Her main passion is interior design, but she is capable of modeling almost anything. Besides various models, she has also uploaded complex scenes. Ramezan is one of the few female creators active in the BlenderKit community. We hope that more women will be inspired to share their work after reading about her journey.

BlenderKit is now bigger than ever with more than 500 000 registered users. And we also prepared new release for you.

We are excited to announce the release of BlenderKit add-on 3.6.0, which comes with numerous improvements and new features that enhance your experience with BlenderKit.

Nikola Matkovic is great artist and as he said about himself "The Furniture guy". If you would like to find out more, read our interview with him. This interview was conducted by our colleague and feminist artist Alma Lilly Rayner.

Today is International Women's Day and we wanted to dedicate this article to all the great female BlenderKit artists out there.

Our subscription prices will increase in April.

New release packed with exciting improvements.

We have some exciting news for you. The BlenderKit team has just released a brand new version of our add-on.

The freshly baked release of the add-on is out. Don't miss it.

So many virtual thingies to play with!

We celebrate until Black Friday. Read what's new and get 25% off.

It's here! Another update to our add-on. This time with new amazing tips!

BlenderKit introduces the new validation comments for all creators, which replace the validation e-mails.

We are pleased to announce the release of BlenderKit add-on version 3.1.6. It is a minor version release, but it still brings some great new features and improvements!

Interview with one of our female 3D artist Kate White was conducted by our colleague and feminist artist Alma Lilly Rayner.

We are happy to announce the next release of our add-on.

Today we experienced a several-hour long service outage.

BlenderKit continues to grow at an exponential rate after several years. We have a few stats that make us happy.

We are always busy working on our add-on, and we have a new release of our add-on for you! Know that we've rewritten a huge part of the add-on to make it work great for everyone.

We are thrilled to announce the results of our winter contest, which I'm sure you've been anxiously awaiting.

BlenderKit is adding new feature, with which you can put comments to assets in the gallery.

We are now finalizing the site for voting and you can vote between 8.3 and 21.3.2022.

Today is International Women's Day and we wanted to dedicate this article to all the great female BlenderKit artists out there.

We condemn war in any form, and we condemn the invasion of Ukraine.

After several months of testing, we are launching affiliate links for you.

BlenderKit 3.0.6 brings fixes of as many of your bug reports as possible.

BIG CHANGE! You won't find BlenderKit in Blender 3.0 by default anymore. Find out about new features in this article.

For new versions of Blender, download our add-on at our website.

BlenderKit is now supporting Paypal recurring payments.

This year we decided to go black and celebrate until Black Friday. Read what's new and get 25% off.

Since 10.9.2021, We are switching the complexity calculation in our score equation from mean to median.

The website redesign you've all been waiting for.

What's new in our add-on in Blender 2.93?

We launched New My assets page, so check it out.

We present you an interview with Jair del Real Segura, one of our top creators.

We'll be increasing our subscriptions a bit once we reach 9,000 assets. If you get a subscription now, you can enjoy the lower price forever.

We are happy to inform you that now you can get all PolyHaven HDRIs into Blender also through our add-on.

Read more in depth about the new add-on.

We got some great news for you - This is the largest update of BlenderKit so far.

Check out our new asset types.

We are glad to introduce the Texture Resolutions feature in Blender 2.92. If you have a small GPU memory or want to create much larger scenes, this is the feature you’ve been waiting for.

Now you can read more about using BlenderKit in the official Blender manual.

In the week since Tuesday 19.1.2021 we are switching to an improved category system.

Validation process has been improved, and new Category system is coming soon.

Petr has created some great BlenderKit optimizations

The best presents we can give you.

With every new release of Blender we also try to improve BlenderKit. Here's what we done for you this time.

BlenderKit is now two years old. It’s a real thrill and you are all invited to celebrate with us. meow!

More than 7000$ collected for the Open - Source cause.

Check our new video tutorial on how to activate and use BlenderKit in Blender 2.9

Simple card and recurring payments are coming to BlenderKit.

New updates and features in add-on in Blender 2.90

We created the first of the BlenderKit artists interviews with Julio Sillet, who has uploaded many great materials to our website.

Blender 2.82 brings a lot of fun on the Kit-side.

We invite you to celebrate with us!

BlenderKit team attended at Blender conference 2019

Some new features have been cooked for the add-on in Blender 2.81.

Blender 2.8 RC is out and we've been busy too.

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All the models, brushes, add-ons and materials for you to browse online. And if you find what you were looking for? Get it.

We are happy to announce that BlenderKit database now offers over 1000 assets. These were uploaded by over 60 active creators.

BlenderKit is now just one click away, as a 'default' material library inside Blender 2.8

We released a set of bark materials.

Literally every area you step in Blender requires you to learn a lot of new tools and information, and that's why we implemented several 'shortcuts' for convenience and speed.

We worked hard on improving our add-on - again.

Stones, rocks, pieces of wood can be sometimes photoscanned. But plants are still a domain of hard-core modeling. This really takes time, skill and precision, and a lot of observation what "natural" really means.

We just recently released a set of 9 texture-based PBR cycles materials.

We are trying to help you, blenderheads, to save your time while achieving best results possible. Wallpaper textures can really boost interior renders, but do you already have those on your hard drive?

As a late Christmas gift, we are releasing our BlenderKit mascot kitten for free. Now, you can make any scene insta-cute! The kitten is poseable and can be animated (by now 2.79 only, because of a hair-import bug in 2.8 beta).

BlenderKit introduces add-on for Blender 2.8. While there are still many changes in Blender happening, which may cause the add-on will work today and not tomorrow, the add-on should be mostly working fine, and we try to keep the new version updated with the latest Blender builds.

To further extend the free plan and enable users the experience of all features, we enabled about 20 models as free and these are available as "freebies" category. The model database now grows almost every day.

We are happy to announce the release of something we've been working on for a long time.

BlenderKit is a new online platform made for Blender users, creators, and developers. We hope to bring a new momentum into the open source world by introducing several innovations we've been working on.

Blenderkits' position on CC0 models uploaded from non-original authors.