Blender News & Tutorials

February downtime, what really happened?

by poifox · February 04, 2014 · 0 comments

Some of you may have noticed that since the end of January the site had been experincing some very slow load times that affected the usability of the site and in recent days we were forced to take ...

Introducing: Weekend Challenges!

by poifox · December 16, 2013 · 0 comments

We're happy to announce that we're releasing today a new feature on the site: Weekend Challenges! A couple Fridays a month, the Blend Swap admins will create a new Weekend Challenge in the form of...

It's our 4th Birthday!!

by mofx · December 04, 2013 · 0 comments

UPDATE: Congratulations to johnakaagila and SonnySee for winning the contest. Check your Blend Swap messages for more info. Thanks again to everyone. So four years ago I had this crazy i...

Blend Swap 5.2 is here!

by poifox · December 02, 2013 · 0 comments

We finally made it! After many months of work, delays and more work, we give you Blend Swap 5.2.   What's new? New UI experience. Of course, the most evident change is the new User Interface ...

Blend Swap and Render Street Offer

by mofx · November 19, 2013 · 0 comments

  Disclamer: you very seldom see reviews or suggested services here on Blend Swap. That's because I don't really think this is what the site is for, but I have personally used Render.st in my ...

New license supported CC-BY-NC-SA.

by poifox · October 10, 2013 · 0 comments

We just added support for the Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC-SA, Adding a new possibility for artists to share their work on their own terms. We respect your liberty to choose how your work shou...

WARNING: To all scammers!

by mofx · September 19, 2013 · 0 comments

Morte Jr." by gustavobelo Consider this an official warning to anyone that thinks it would be easy to download models from Blend Swap and sell them on other sites without proper consent from the bl...

Render Farm Review.

by mofx · August 13, 2013 · 0 comments

So I don't often post about the work I do at my day job. Quite frankly because my day job and Blender don't overlap much but in the last few weeks I've been assigned 4 commercial projects that are ...

Introducing Premier Model Packs......maybe???

by mofx · June 26, 2013 · 0 comments

Model Rejected.... WTF!!!!!

by mofx · June 04, 2013 · 0 comments

We get a lot of models here at Blend Swap. On average you guys upload around 20 models a day. Unfotunately, a lot of those models get rejected for one reason or another and as is totally resonable,...

Redesign of the Blend Page

by mofx · April 17, 2013 · 0 comments

Jonathan is working on redesigning the single blend pages. We're trying to add more emphasis on the artist and also help improve user experience, so the data that you're most interested in is easil...

Introducing Deadline Membership

by mofx · March 13, 2013 · 0 comments

Today we will start offering a new membership type on Blend Swap.    Deadline Membership The Deadline Membership is a special plan with which you get 24 hours of Unlimite...

Blend Swap March Newsletter

by mofx · February 28, 2013 · 0 comments

So we've decided to move our newsletters from MailChimp to the in-site dashboard. One reason is to save money, but we also want more people to have access to the newsletter. Since we think it is ve...

New Blender Book from Ben Simonds! A quick review

by poifox · February 21, 2013 · 0 comments

Ben Simonds just released his brand new book Blender Master Class: A hands on guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials and Rendering, in which he takes us through the making of three great Blender p...

A BIG THANKS from Blend Swap

by mofx · February 05, 2013 · 0 comments

I'd like to personally thank all of our users for your continued support and patience with us as the new site gets up and running to 100% We thought that this version of the site would be a little ...

Welcome to Blend Swap Version 5!

by poifox · January 29, 2013 · 0 comments

After three years of Blend Swap’s existence we have finally launched our fifth, shiniest --and most delayed-- version of the site. This is by far the most elaborate version of Blend Swap to date. W...

Update your email addresses

by mofx · December 10, 2012 · 0 comments

In this post we warned all those users who registered with dummy/temporary emails, before version 5 was released, about the sure chance they'd lose their accounts because they'd have to reset their...

A guide to the new Fan Art marking.

by poifox · October 12, 2012 · 0 comments

Hello, everybody. As we announced a couple days back, the Fan Art mark was implemented to let people know when a model depicts copyrighted designs and ideas from third party companies not related t...

Don't Sue me Bro!!!!

by mofx · September 21, 2012 · 0 comments

Help us, help you not get sued!! We've implemented a new feature in Blend Swap called Fan Art. Basically this is a checkbox that you click in your edit blend panel that adds the Fan Art Disclaimer....

We moved to new server!

by poifox · September 10, 2012 · 0 comments

Once again we will be moving moved to a new server because our hosting provider was no longer supporting the plan we used. But fear not! We just got a brand new server and we're working right now t...

BLEND SWAP VERSION 5 NEWS

by mofx · July 01, 2012 · 0 comments

A little news about Version 5 of Blend Swap also why using fake emails will eventually be your downfall. Here is a snippet from the July Newsletter. This is also a good reason to check out the news...

1 Million Views... SAY WHAT!!! .:UPDATE WINNERS:.

by mofx · June 04, 2012 · 0 comments

WOW.... wow, I'm not sure what else to say, I knew we where close to hitting the 1 million mark, but it was still an amazement when I saw this. I can honestly say I never imagined Blend Swap gettin...

Fantasy Character Contest WINNERS!!!

by mofx · May 08, 2012 · 0 comments

So I think the general

Membership survey

by poifox · March 26, 2012 · 0 comments

Please take a couple minutes to answer to this survey. The results will help us develop and improve the next version of Blend Swap to offer you with a rock solid service. If you already have a Pa...

Fantasy Characters Contest Announcement :Updated!!

by mofx · March 01, 2012 · 0 comments

Enter our new contest!, Create an awesome, full-featured, ready for production fantasy character and win awesome prices. The focus of the contest will be ORIGINAL Fantasy Humanoid Characters, rigge...