🧡 Blender 5.2 has released! A new polished era, an accumulation of the 5.x series, and a fine nod to performance and stability. Bforartists 5.2.0 is coming right up! We cooking hard to tie up some loose ends, then it's a go next week.

🎨 Being an Artists challenge! With the words "Golden Compass" Starting in 45 minutes in the Discord Server, join in this week and submit a finished art piece here or in the Discord server!

🎨It's Friday again! This means we can be an artist with a a new week and idea. Last week we did the Emerald Horizon, and these were the results! #artthreads

🎨 Last week we had the word "Emerald Horizon", and now this week I'd like to invite you to make some art about the "Golden Compass" 🧭😁 Happy to share! Watch the weekly showcase: youtu.be/PaiHrQ6nUnA?...

🎨It's Friday, that means we will continue to make another art piece! Here were last weeks pieces about the "Fire Hydrant", a modeling challenge. Guess which one was done in Bforartists. 👀

We have a new weekly video of 🎨 Being an Artist! This is about community art, a weekly word for an art piece done together, and about Bforartists updates. Subscribe, give a like and enjoy. 📺 youtu.be/yZTBU5-Jffc?...

🎨 "Debris" with work from Alex, Jonas, Tom and Draise! Every Friday we have a new word to make, and now a weekly video showcasing your art on Youtube! Join and be an artist.

🎨 Welcome to the Being an Artist Weekly Showcase! In these videos: 🔑 Reveal of next week’s subject so you can join in! 🖌️ Highlights artists pieces of the weekly subject 🌟 Showcase finished art 📰 Weekly Bforartists development updates and news www.youtube.com/watch?v=pteH...

🎨 "Hidden Moss". In the Bforartists discord server, we do a weekly word for a piece of art! Every Friday live or during the week! Join in! Make an art piece.

🔍 This latest release has a Node editor Minimap and it's a lot of fun for big trees! #blender #nodes

The new materials are thanks to the Curtis Holt's community with CC0 materials! We rebuilt the thumbnails to follow the new Blender online Essentials, and we included our own CC0 wooden materials too! Enjoy with Bforartists 5.1.2

Would you like a Node Editor Minimap, customizable Quick Favorites menu with icons, and new out-of-the-box materials? Well then... this version is for you! 😙 Bforartists 5.1.2 has released, based on Blender 5.2 and 5.1.2.

🧙‍♂️One of our little Wizard based assets Smart Mesh Blend by Proximity gets a big upgrade on performance! Intersection removal, and simpler controls. Now in Bforartists 5.1.1, based on Blender 5.2. Help us by using the developer builds. #ArtTools

😳 Have you tried the new UV nodes? Gizmos for uv control. Shaft uv unwrapping live as you model, triplanar uvs for procedural meshes, it's packed! Even had camera projected UVs running live.

🏁🏇The UV Nodes release gets a hotfix! With some extra goodies including a Raycast Edges asset, better Grease Pencil support with Curves to Tubes modifier, and much polish. Download today.

👁️With version 5.1.1 around the corner with a couple of extra goodies, we can't help but notice that the Topbar Editor and Topbar customization has improved a lot! Now more accessible, usable and consistent.

Bforartists is always about refinement and polish, details. We try to make all assets well curated, commented, and beautiful - and thus the Grease Pencil assets get a quick update! ✏️ #greasepencil #blender3d #assets

📺 Want to get the low-down of everything new in Bforartists 5.1?? It's a lot! Here is a video that covers all the new key features, work and much more coming in from Blender 5.1 (and 5.2)! youtu.be/PM0lft4NtN4

✏️ Whats exciting about this latest release is the ability to sync surface distance with pen pressure, allowing grease pencil to draw on 3D geometry without clipping.

💙+🧡Bforartists 5.1.0 is based on the Blender main to the date, which includes Blender 5.2 and 5.1. This is the version with most fixes, performance and love! Though, rumor has it that Blender 5.1.1 will come out mid April, stay tuned for another round of polish!

🏁 What are procedural UV nodes in Bforartists 5.1? They are node groups that contain UV unwrap methods that run realtime on islands, selections, and evolving geometry - live. From triplanar to Smart UVs, camera projected, to a new Cut Cylinder one for quick facial UVs!

✨This Bforartists 5.1.0 release focuses on interface polish and procedural UV Geometry Nodes assets! Now you can get you unwrap game on as you model live. Based on the Blender main: 5.1 release and 5.2 development.

🏁Bforartists 5.1.0 is out! This is the procedural UV Nodes release with much interface polish and love - keeping everything from Blender 5.1.0 and 5.2 in sync! Download for free, enjoy and have fun making 3D art! 🔗Links below:

🏆 The Bforartists 5.1.x splashscreen winner is @krysidian_ (Instagram) and the @Umbraven_cu (Instagram) team! The new face of this fork! With an incredible arty entry taking the cake 🎂, with many incredible additional entries from you entered and evaluated. Soon we release. Stay locked!

🎨 Call for Splashscreens! Someone needs your art! - and in not a lot of time, just enough for you to either create or submit an already created splashscreen with your Art to win prizes! The best could be picked for the next official release of Bforartists 5.1.x this Friday!

Blender is getting awfully close to another release, but that doesn't stop us from experimenting! Right now we are trying out an idea to sync Grease Pencil pressure with surface distance. ✏️✨

🎨This artwork leans into the realistic Star Trek vibes! Made in Bforartists by @seanr1978 ! Yet3 another detailed immaculate and accurate piece. If you post your finished art in the official Discord server with the "✨Showcase Me" tag, then we will share it here!

✏️ New Annotation icons in the Toolshelf. The toolshelf icons update is happening! Now with consistent annotation icons.

Bforartists is about Animation🏃‍♂️With ability to key multiple single channels on all selected objects & bones while holding down ALT, or keying from the sidebar directly without a keyboard, with customizable animation toolbars and panels and top level key type control in headers.

In our Discord💜 community!

Bforartists is about Out-of-the-Box Assets📦Download once, get started immediately. From Shader nodes, Geometry nodes to Compositor node group assets, lights, Smart Primitives, and more. This ever evolving pack grows every release.

Bforartists is about 3D Drawing. ✏️We tune the Grease Pencil interface to be accessible, with common editing and animation in a sidebar on hand, consistent controls in the header, and nodegroups modifiers with additional screen space stroke width for your drawings.

Procedurally, why Bforartists? 🔍This has the Asset Shelf in all node editors with Shader, Compositor and Geometry Nodes assets out of the box, use an Add Node Sidebar for point and click creation, and access nodegroups relevant to the 3D View with another Object mode Asset Shelf!

What makes Bforartists special? ⚒️Advanced 3D Modeling with parametric gizmo based primitives out of the box, extra apply operators that join, remesh or boolean a selection with one click, smart context aware delete, and dimensions on edit mode selections!

🍾🥂 Happy New year from Bforartists! Onwards to 2026 where we have many tasty dishes cooking for you! Thanks for the artwork. The community, the developers for keeping this very alive and for some of the biggest releases this year! Love you all. 💙😊

🍝 Bforartists 5.0.1 has officially released! With many hot fixes for stability and polish from both Blender and us! 📥Download Free now! Happy new year! PS. We also have a new Bone Info geometry node.

📰 Have you enjoyed Bforartists 5.0.0, based on the Blender 5.1 main? We have another build with many fixes incoming tomorrow!

Here we go again! Blender 5.0.1 released today. After the next merge we will work on this release most likely ready for you as a holiday gift! 🎁

✨What's new with Bforartists 5.0.0? It's the BIGGEST RELEASE OF THIS YEAR. Now you can watch about the new features here: youtu.be/v9gas2sFswI?...

This Bforartists 5.0.0 version has another colorful update! Nodes now get a customizable background colour based on the node header color - tuned to taste! Get visual, see what a node type is at a glance. 🌈

🗄️What else is new? We have exposed the Region Pie toggle and assigned it to the default Bforartists hotkey 'T', also taking into account the Asset shelf included in Object mode and all node editors. #bforartists

🍝 With the Node Editor Upgrade version, we added icons to collapsed headers and a new customizable Canvas Center overaly, to not get lost!

🍝 I got 99 compositor nodes, but a hitch ain't one. The Bforartitss 5.0 release comes with nodegroup assets ready to drag and drop for you out of the box.

Bforartists 5.0.0 is the Node Editor Upgrade! This is one of the biggest releases this year with over 242 tasks of love added to this build, with focus on Node Visual Esability and new assets - with all things great from Blender 5.0 too! 💙+🧡

💙 With the new Bforartists 5.0.0 release, we have a new arty splashscreen proudly presented to you with work from @blue_nile_3d ! This release comes with new compositor assets (99!), new apply operators, customizable node background colors and much much more.

📣 Say hello to Bforartists 5.0.0! The first of the 5th series, a major milestone version of the toolset. With over 99 new compositor nodes, much love to the node editor customization and usability, more love to interface polish, icons, and details - now available for free.

🗞️ Just in! Blender 5.0 has released - and this means we are working hard to tie up loose ends to bring you a packed release! With more default assets out of the box, much Node editor love and many many details more!

🍝 We have been cooking! Here is a fun little tease, the node editor got SO much love this cycle for Bforartists 5.0.

📰Coming soon! Blender 5.0 will launch. We are tying up some loose threads, packing up some sweets for you, and polishing documentation! Then Bforartists 5.0 will release too!

🏆 Bforartists 5.0 is coming out soon! And we have a spot for YOUR art to become the next Splashscreen - the next face of the next generation of this software! ⏰ Submit your piece before the 20th of November to be in to win!