📺 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!

Doing #Nodevember in Bforartists! With our new assets coming soon.

⏱️The Animation Editors will be getting a short hand access to the timeline! Along with footer controls. The Timeline was removed, then added back by Blender, but they are still the same as the Dopesheet - so we made a header button to toggle the Dopesheet to Timeline mode.

🎨 Being an artist - first iteration! We connected for an hour and had fun making a render with @SmallzKillin , SanojLeOne, Shadenfreude, and Draise! Theme: The Dark Mountain

🎨 Being an Artists 001! By popular demand, we will be doing a new weekly event! Join live to model, light and render an art piece based on a weekly theme. We'll be creating a 1 hour art piece live, to vote then share! ⏰ Every Friday at: 14:00 CST / 1900 UTC 📻 Event discord.gg/uFSu4JSf?eve...

🎨What's coming to Bforartists 5.0? Well the new Blender 5.0 essential assets! We are adopting them, adding our asset thumbnail style and language - with polish! (And more?)

Updates to Nodes coming to Blender/Bforartists 5.0! With some differences with Bforartists - we also get these these updates: 1/3 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kKR...

🧾With Blender 5.0 comes elements of Bforartists 5.0 to keep in mind! 1. This is based on the Blender main, meaning we are in the 5.0 series will release on 5.1 development. 2. File compatibility backwards will be limited, so push forward! 3. Test addons with latest always.

🖥️HYPE! Blender 5.0 will branch in a week - but have we all COOKED! We will be getting a nodes group visual overhaul and colored backgrounds as an opt in! 👁️🌈

So much is cooking from Blender into Bforartists that November will be packed with much! 💙+ 🧡 - Essential assets for Geometry Nodes and Compositor - Compositor Modifier for sequencer - 3D Sequencer mode (now built-in) - Closures and Bundles also in Shaders ⚠️ Help test!

💙This Asset Shelf Usability hotfix update has a accumulation of two point version stability, with much stability from Blender! 📥Download, try it out, share how you use the assets.

💙 Bforartists 4.5.2 has been released! The Asset Shelf Usability version gets quite a large chunk of hotfixes: based on the Blender 5.0 main and Blender 4.5.2. 📥Download today, for free.

🏛️ Bforartists 4.5.1 – Officially Released! The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade hotfix. This is a stability update to the release that has brought us much much love to the Asset Shelves usability with many new accumulated details and features from Bforartists and Blender 4.5.1.

🐰Another new asset is the Mesh Lines and Silhouette nodegroup - where you can get some tried and true inverse hull Geometry Nodes. Features: - Color and width controls - Randomization - Poligonization - Weight Paint controls for width - Flattening of silhouttte - Intersections

💜New asset! Blend normals by proximity on a collection of objects, for "fake SDF" Available as a default asset now! Drag and drop from the Asset Browser or Asset Shelf under the Normals category.

📺 Official Release Video - 🏛️ The Asset Shelf Usability Upgrade! The video covers core features adopted from Blender, new features added, and the artwork that played! Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/SAkbKwW3teE

Bforartists is based on the Main Trunk of blender, meaning all official release fixes and the future of Blender 5.0 is part of this release, with 6 weeks differences from the official branch of Blender! ⚠️Test, report, help us polish!

🖼️ The default Presentations Slides addon has a new operator to make new slides! They are scenes with some presets, frame duration and sequential insertion to make slides... easier than ever! Scenes are very powerful!