Small thing, big feel: in Bforartists 5.2.3 you can roll the view right from the navigation gizmo 🌀
Bforartists
@bforartists.bsky.social
Bforartists is a fork focused on UI and usability made from the popular opensource 3D software Blender 📥 Download for free today! And enjoy. 🌍 Official Website https://www.bforartists.de/download/
Small thing, big feel: in Bforartists 5.2.3 you can roll the view right from the navigation gizmo 🌀 What's a viewport habit you'd never give up?
Who wants their art on the Bforartists 5.3 splash screen? 🎨 The call is open: 1920 × 1080 px, any style, made in Bforartists or Blender. The chosen piece opens 5.3 for every user, with full credit on the splash and the release page. Deadline Nov 15, submissions on Discord: discord.gg/yKuR77v
💙Bforartists 5.2.3 based on Blender 5.3 has been released! On a new website too. This one specializes in dopesheet scene strip gizmos, viewport rotation gizmos, and much more. Made with much love for you. Download freely here: www.bforartists.co
🤖 And the server is back up! For now. We are working on making a new file server as we speak, stay tuned!
🎨 Every week we celebrate being an artist and do some artnfor an hour together. Come watch or play and make an art piece - in the Discord server or on @trinumedia.bsky.social twitch, as they use Bforartists!
🎨 "Trading card", "Prism", "Mechanical", "Flow" while Being an Artist! It has been a moment, but we have 4 weeks of weekly art, and 3 weeks of showcase artwork! With much development and exciting experimental code cooking. 👀 Watch more here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g6H...
🎨"Trading card", "Prism", "Mechanical", "Flow" - Being an Artists 31-34/'26
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↔️ In Bforartists 5.2, we exposed the UV Move on Axis to top-level operators, so you can assign arrow hotkeys to shuffle UV's over UDIMS, Pixels or grid measurements! Shuffle shuffle!
✏️ With the Power User Tools addon, we have a new operator for hotkey users who like to select the Grease Pencil layer under the mouse. Assign a hotkey, then select (and isolate lock) all strokes and layers of a layer at once. Works in all modes too! Only in Bforartists 5.2.
🎞️ Sequencer Compositor assets also gets he same UX as the modifier stack. Search between built in modifiers and modifier assets for the sequencer compositor stack, contained, discoverable. Now in Bforartists 5.2.0, based on Blender 5.3
🪐Bforartists comes with an offline out-of-the-box usability philosophy, with built-in assets. Download, install, get going. But Blender online assets are also included with the Asset shelf too! Now updated with extra materials and consistent thumbnails this current release.
🔼 New Stacks Open Editor Buttons Every wanted to quickly open up the node editor from the modifier stack, world stack, geometry nodes stack, or others? Now you can. Open a floating window and access the nodes from the stack directly. Only with Bforartists 5.2.0
📚 We now have new Asset Library operators, one to open and also clear the Online Assets cache, and another to directly open the Library Paths from the asset Browser. Bforartists is about exposing convenience and control.
🎨 Every Friday we connect in the Discord server to make some art with Bforartists, Blender or anything you love! An open art session. Let's make a piece about a Prism today.
👀 Being an artists with you making incredible art! These past couple weeks are full of beautiful pieces, animation, and new updates to Blender a long with another official release! Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnNN...
🎨 "Iron Bloom" - Being an Artists 30 & 31/'26
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🔍The new Node Editor Minimap of Bforartists, based on Blender 5.3, allows toggling, swap position to bottom, scale and ratio, to minimize or use node colors - all tunable! Get this for free today.
📺 A new fresh feature video of Bforartist 5.2.0 based on Blender 5.3 of the future has come out of the oven! Fresh and tasty. See what's new here: youtu.be/ZvsdGbKPzv0
Bforartists 5.2.0 - Official Release - 🔍Nodes Minimap and Quick Favorites Upgrade
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🔍+🏃♂️ Bforartists 5.2 has love to the Node Editor Minimap, so you can navigate trees, and with the Quick Favorites Menu, so it's easier to re-order, see and edit directly from the short-hand menu. Oh and a tonne of performance, stability and polish from Blender too.
🩵+ 🧡 Bforartists 5.2.0 is based on Blender 5.3 alpha and 5.2 This means you get the latest of the latest when it comes to stability, performance and new features!
🩵Bforartsits 5.2.0 is about the Nodes Editor Minimap and new Quick Favorites iconography and customization - with much polish everywhere. Upgrade for a stable, performant release! 100% free.
Bforartists 5.2.0 is around the corner! And we just finished a major sprint to tie up some loose ends - hear and see more about it here! 🥰 Watch the latest Being an Artist show: youtu.be/QTGVt1Z-THQ?...
🎨 "Splashscreen" - Being an Artists 28 & 29/'26
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🐴 Hello. I'm the new splash screen for Bforartists 5.2.0, by Belzunze.
🎨 "Golden Compass" - Being an Artists 27/'26 Get the low down of the latest art from the Bforartists community, where every Friday there is an open art session, and we talk of what is coming, including a call for splashscreens! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY15...
🎨 "Golden Compass" - Being an Artists 27/'26
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👀 Call for Splashscreens! Bforartists 5.2.0 is around the corner, but this means the software needs you! Your artwork could become the next face of Bforartists as a Splashscreen. Submit your art before Friday the 24th and be in to win.
🧡 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?...
🎨 "Emerald Horizon- Being an Artists 26/'26
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🎨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. 👀