Blender

"Grease Pencil Goodies - Story Tools, New Brushes & the VSE Editor" by Laura Gingrich at Blender Conference 2026

This afternoon, we're exploring the exciting developments for storyboard and vis dev artists. This summer, the developers have released a new brush pack that includes a fantastic array of oils, charcoals, and foliage. We'll play with these tools for thumbnails and exploration, color keys and projection mapping. Then we'll look at implementing a 3D car into 2D environments, and we'll string it together with the new Storyboarding workflow.

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"Fisherwoman Item Song" by Suresh Eriyat at Blender Conference 2026

At Studio Eeksaurus, we would like to showcase, that how an agile team could deliver stunning, industry standard visuals that compete with major productions. Featuring our upcoming short music video made in blender, Fisherwoman, this presentation showcases how we harnessed Blender’s accessible toolset and vast learning ecosystem to maximize our creative freedom. We will break down our stylized texturing and lighting workflows, demonstrating how a boutique studio can push artistic boundaries without a massive pipeline. It’s a testament to how the right tools empower small teams to create premium, world-class animation.

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"Non-Destructive Mesh Fusion Without SDF or Remesh" by Mattia Miccoli at Blender Conference 2026

Fusing one mesh smoothly into another has always been a pain. The usual routes are destructive edits, signed distance fields, or remeshing, and they all bake away the freedom to keep iterating. Mattia Miccoli built a fully non-destructive way to fuse geometry and materials that avoids SDF and remesh entirely, with every parameter adjustable in real time on top of the original topology. In this talk he shows how the approach works, where it helps most in modeling and hard-surface work, and what shipping a brand new kind of tool taught him.

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"The Quest for the Ultimate Stylized Mouth Rig" by Maor Fridman at Blender Conference 2026

Ever since my student days, I’ve been obsessed with creating the ultimate, most versatile cartoon mouth rig—one that delivers highly flexible, appealing shapes. In our latest short film, "Finding Rozy," this journey culminated in a new approach: a Geometry Nodes-based system heavily inspired by Pixar’s Win or Lose. While it’s closer than ever to my dream rig, it still faces some technical bottlenecks. This talk explores that evolution, breaks down the setup, and invites the community to help troubleshoot and perfect the ultimate mouth workflow

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"A holistic guide to the Hollywood VFX colour pipeline" by Mark Boorer at Blender Conference 2026

Follow along as we find out how to apply the colour science tools of the VFX industry to your own projects. This talk covers processes such as plate linearisation, neutral grading, VFX compositing, CDL grading, and display transforms.

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"Creative Misuse of the 3D Toolbox" by Markus Biegholdt, Rob Green at Blender Conference 2026

At Atomhawk, our strategy is built around delivering impactful work, building capability, and evolving how we create, and this 'Studio' talk shows how that translates into real production workflows. The talk explores how Atomhawk implemented Blender not as a traditional 3D package, but as a flexible, idea-driven creative tool within the context of real-world AAA concept pipeline. Offering insight into studio workflows and practical scenarios, it dives into how concept artists use Blender as a design lab and problem-solving environment - prioritising speed, iteration, and artistic intent over technical correctness. By embracing unconventional workflows and non-traditional 3D practices, the emphasis moves beyond software features and toward creative exploration, experimentation, and innovative thinking. Supported by shared assets, custom tools, procedural workflows and automation, Blender becomes a flexible, all-in-one environment for rapid, expressive concept creation. For us, this isn’t just about Blender, it’s about how we make better work, move faster, and keep pushing our creative approach forward.

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"The Power of Curves" by Iwo Pilc at Blender Conference 2026

In this presentation, I’ll show you how I use curves every day in my projects. You’ll learn how to use them properly, what they’re capable of, and some cool tricks that offer a different approach to various 3D tasks.

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"Continuing a Lie: Creatures!" by Omar Hewady at Blender Conference 2026

In this talk, PhotonTown CEO will take you on a journey through the art, technology, and business of creating ultra-hyper-realistic creatures. Drawing from real-world productions, including the creature featured on Zayn Malik's latest album artwork, the animals created for Phish's Sigma Oasis experience at the Las Vegas Sphere...the world's largest screen...the Yeti created for Snippers USA Footwear, and the official lion mascot for the Confederation of African Football (CAF), he will break down the complete workflow from concept to final delivery. Attendees will gain insights into creature design, look development, Blender production pipelines, client collaboration, and the realities of delivering world-class creature work in a professional studio environment.

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"Automotive Design in Blender" by Kim Jern, Rodrigo Candell, Ardalan Farboud at Blender Conference 2026

Automotive design has traditionally relied on NURBS-based workflows, but the modeling team at Zeekr and Lynk & Co Design has gradually adopted Blender as a core tool for both exterior and interior concept development.

In this session, Kim Jern, Rodrigo Candell and Ardalan Farboud will share how Blender fits into their professional automotive design pipeline, what it enables, the challenges they have faced along the way, and where they see opportunities for Blender to go even further in automotive design.

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"How Not to Build a Shading Language" by Clément FOUCAULT at Blender Conference 2026

Managing cross-platform rendering across modern APIs like Vulkan, Metal, and OpenGL introduces shader code complexity. To combat fragmentation, code duplication, and slow runtime compilation, Blender is migrating to its own custom solution: the Blender Shading Language (BSL). This presentation explores the architectural evolution of Blender's shader pipeline, the design principles of BSL, and how a custom, lightning-fast preprocessor solved the performance pitfalls of vendor shader compilers.

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Learn more about Blender Conference 2026 at https://conference.blender.org/2026/