Screencapture and title card of the new topbar customization panel, showing visibility toggles and sub-group settings
👁️With version 5.1.1 around the corner with a couple of extra goodies, we can't help but notice that the Topbar Editor and Topbar customization has improved a lot!
Now more accessible, usable and consistent.
Bforartists is always about refinement and polish, details. We try to make all assets well curated, commented, and beautiful - and thus the Grease Pencil assets get a quick update! ✏️
#greasepencil #blender3d #assets
📺 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
An icon of grease pencil showing radius with the new surface distance to pressure radius sync settings for Grease pencil.
✏️ 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.
Splashscreen of Blender 5.1.0 from the Blender studio with information of the latest main trunk Bforartsits forks from.
💙+🧡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.
📥 Downloads:
www.bforartists.de/download
🧡 Blender Launcher
github.com/Victor-IX/Bl...
📝 Release Notes:
www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🏁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:
This build had a week more of fixes and the 5.2 fixes coming in from Blender, so hopefully it's stable! If anything we will also release 5.1.1 (based on 5.2) when Blender releases 5.1.1.
Hope you enjoy this version! We try make things more accessible.
Bforartists splashcreen in a painterly style, for a GUI focused fork of Blender. Has a character standing on a lamppost in the dark of a blue night in a mideival city.
🏆 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!
🏆 First Prize is Mat Plus: A texture painting addon with EVERYTHING you'd ever need, valued at $75 USD!
ℹ️ More Information:
www.trinumedia.com/events/compe...
📻 Event discord.gg/MJrxqD6c?eve...
🎨 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!
Thanks for the share! Hope you like it, and find things more discoverable.
One of the reasons this exists! For a point and click workflow with Blender power. Thanks for the recommendation!
It's a start!
Glad you like this build! Made with much love.
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. 💙😊
Get it here!
🌍 Official Website
www.bforartists.de/download/
🪟 Windows App
www.microsoft.com/store/produc...
🧡 Blender Launcher
github.com/Victor-IX/Bl...
📄 Release Notes:
www.bforartists.de/release-notes/
🖥️ Source Code
github.com/Bforartists/
🍝 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.
