🗞️ 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!

🎁 What makes this release special is the Geometry Nodes Mesh Lines and Silhouette and Blend Normals by Proximity asset that does "fake SDF" blending on a collection of objects. Drag and drop from the asset shelf or browser to scene to use. 🧙‍♂️

🏛️The Asset Shelf and Browser now supports linking in Blend file assets and automatically adding Library Overrides, only with Bforartists. Not to mention we have a top level opt in for instancing and set position to world center! 💙

🟦 This new release also comes with some social media preset dimensions and ratios for the modern era of media! Vertical, Square, Portrait, and Landscape proportions. To use, go to the output panel in the Properties Editor, use the presets dropdown from the header, and viola!

💙Bforartists 4.5.0 is about Asset Shelves: where you can drag object mode assets into the 3D View and Node Editors with automatic Library Overrides! And another 169 touches of love. Based on Blender 4.5 and Blender 5.0

Say hello to Bforartists 4.5.0! With Asset Shelf import propertiese, drag and drop with auto- overrides, Blend Normals by Proximity drag and drop wizard for collections - with Blender 4.5.0 & 5.0.0! 📥 Download for Free today! Let us know what you think of this big release!

👀We are cooking up the builds with some new default assets, and much asset shelf love with Bforartists 4.5.0, based on Blender 5.0 and Blender 4.5. Hold onto your hats! It's coming!

🏆💙 Say hello to the new face of Bforartists 4.5.0! Prashan Subsinghe took the cake, with a near tie by one point! Thanks to the whole community for their entries, biggest in history yet! Release inbound early next week.

📻 Bforartists 4.5.0 is right around the corner! And the big Splashscreen reveal happens tomorrow with rating, and constructive feedback for each piece with preview and distribution of prizes is happening live tomorrow! Join to share praise and maybe influence the vote! 👹

📻 Blender 4.5 released today! Meaning next week we too will release Bforartists 4.5.0! We are tying up some loose ends, packing some small goodies (like the Object/World Normal vector node group) and more for you soon.

📻 In 25 minutes I'll be going live! With Cave Darr, super excited! Art direction, future of Blender 5.0, shaders, trajectory, industry - you name it! Come drop by and ask some questions. 📺 www.youtube.com/live/fbWuOFM...

💙 Come join us in the Discord community for an episode Be with Artists 108 - Creative Direction as an Indie with Cave Darr! This episode of a live questions and answers, we talk about coming into the art from the outside, shaders, future of Blender and creative direction in the indie industry!

💙 Thursday we'll be hosting yet another episode of Be with Artists 107 - Friends and the Art industry with special guest Ashlee3dee! A geometry nodes specialist and tech artist! Tune in live.

📻 Bforartists is turning 10 years old! To celebrate, the Bforartists discord community will be hosting a live questions and answers event with Cody Gindy! Let's celebrate, and tune in live for a special announcement!

Give the Smart Primitives a go with Bforartists 4.4.3 💎, for free! Contains new gizmos, sidebar numerical properties in the Item sidebar, Apply Selected primitives to edit with join or boolean operators, and much more!

Bforartists 4.4.3 💎is available in the Blender Launcher v2, Windows app store installation, and available for Linux as a Flatpak, MacOS with a universal installer, and Windows. 📥 Download Free (and enjoy) today!

Bforartists 4.4.3 💎 is based on the Blender main trunk, meaning you get all LTS fixes, all official release features and future features of Blender 4.5.0 Alpha! 📥 Download for free today!

Did you know, node group assets can be exposed to the Compositor, Geometry Nodes, Shader Nodes and 3D View in Object mode? These new helper buttons help you expose node groups to the Asset Shelves! And you do this with Tags from the Asset Browser. Only with Bforartists 4.4.3💎

With the new Smart Primitives, we also have new Asset Library re-order operators, so you can arrange which goes first! Small but meaningful. Only with Bforartists 4.4.3 💎

This release has many bug fixes from Blender, and a few from us - but the big new feature are gizmo based smart primitives! 💎 📥 Download Free today! And enjoy, do let us know what you think of this release and how to improve!

Bforartists 4.3.3 - Official Release Video - Smart Primitives 💎 This is a stability hotfix release with many showstopper fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4.3 and 4.5 to the date - with 15 new pieces of work from us. 📺 youtu.be/mhgS7KPOHxk

📻 Done with Bforartists! Using the new shipped Smart Primitives and Bforaritists exclusive Asset Shelf in Object mode.

🖥️ The biggest new feature in the Bforartists 4.4.3 release are Geometry Nodes based Smart Primitives, with a new Apply (and boolean selection or join selection) operators from the Item tab. Use the 3D View Asset Shelf, drag and drop, play with the gizmos - then apply!

🖥️ The biggest new feature in the Bforartists 4.4.3 release are Geometry Nodes based Smart Primitives, with a new Apply (and boolean selection or join selection) operators from the Item tab. Use the 3D View Asset Shelf, drag and drop, play with the gizmos - then apply!

Bforartists 4 version 4.4.3 - Smart Primitives + Hotfix Update 💙⭐ This is a stability hotfix release with many showstopper fixes from Blender. This is part of all the latest from Blender 4.4.3 and 4.5 to the date - with 15 new pieces of work from us. 📥 Download Free today!

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