Blender 2026 Conference talks are dropping now

[AlphaChannel]

Heads up BlenderHeads!

The conference talks are being uploaded from today!

www.youtube.com/@BlenderOfficial/videos

[thetony20]

Yup, dozen or so already listed. This is going to cover my Youtube viewing for the next few days.

[joseph]

Drop your favorites so far, they’re easier to see here as embeds

[Withers99]

I have just been watching The Art of Real-Time viewport cheats, which I thought was really interesting and has taught me lots of new things. I didn’t know there where all them options for viewport shading, and his trick using transparent shading sounds really useful.

The Art of Real-Time Viewport Cheats — BCON26

[Okidoki]

Weirdly this has no sound as “embedded”.. (?).. Maybe it’s a new “feature” from YT.. give the watchers some “silent moments”..

[Withers99]

The sound seems to work for me when playing the embed.

[Okidoki]

Hmmm… weird.. it does play in the same browser when opening on YT..

..to bad that i do not have the time now to listen to it

[filedescriptor]

Playlist link:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLa1F2ddGya_-I9y1nXALrBqrZNdlUE012&si=03g-T2OlTkmPUnH0

[MichaelColina (The "Mr. Polygon Punisher" is your)]

Besides the Intro in the Keynote video, these are my fourth favorite so far:

Controlling Physics With Geometry Nodes — BCON26

Beautiful Parts — BCON26

The Art of Real-Time Viewport Cheats — BCON26

Behind the Water FXs of In Waves — BCON26

[Kologe]

Nobody cares which are my favorites. (Why on earth would they?) But I like to watch it all with a minimum of youtube-assholery in my face (i.e. embedded here).

Wednesday, 23rd September 26

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Keynote — Francesco Siddi

Keynote — BCON26

Blendrooms | From YouTube to Hollywood - The VFX of A24’s Backrooms — Calvin Romeyn

Blendrooms | From YouTube to Hollywood - The VFX of A24's Backrooms — BCON26

Not Color: What Every Digital Artist Should Know About Color Science — Nathan Vegdahl

Not Color: What Every Digital Artist Should Know About Color Science — BCON26

The Nature Generator: Creating Production-Ready Geometry Nodes Tools — Andreas Dürr

The Nature Generator: Creating Production-Ready Geometry Nodes Tools — BCON26

How We Built the BCON26 Visual Identity — Filippo Martinelli, Federica Amico

How We Built the BCON26 Visual Identity — BCON26

Blender Codes: A Treasure Hunt Inside .blend File — Olivier Amrein

Blender Codes: A Treasure Hunt Inside .blend File — BCON26

Rigify - Future Proof Rigging Concepts — Ivan Cappielo

Rigify - Future Proof Rigging Concepts — BCON26

Level Up Your Non-Photoreal Rendering with One Weird Trick — Dave Ferner

Level Up Your Non-Photoreal Rendering with One Weird Trick — BCON26

Future of Flight: Building Aviation Worlds — Stefan Zorzor, Justin Uijldert

Future of Flight: Building Aviation Worlds — BCON26

Motion Sculpting: A New Animation Paradigm — Nacho de Andrés

Motion Sculpting: A New Animation Paradigm — BCON26

Refactoring & Modernizing Code — Bastien Montagne

Refactoring & Modernizing Code — BCON26

The Art of Real-Time Viewport Cheats — Bao-Thinh Dinh

The Art of Real-Time Viewport Cheats — BCON26

Controlling Physics With Geometry Nodes — Simon Thommes

Controlling Physics With Geometry Nodes — BCON26

Le Loup: Adapting a 2D Graphical Novel with a 3D Cinematic Storytelling in Blender — Achille Biais

Le Loup: Adapting a 2D Graphical Novel with a 3D Cinematic Storytelling in Blender — BCON26

Layered Actions & Other Niceties — Nathan Vegdahl, Dr. Sybren A. Stüvel, Christoph Lendenfeld

Layered Actions & Other Niceties — BCON26

Beautiful Parts — Vilém Duha

Beautiful Parts — BCON26

Connecting Blender and Unreal Engine: A Full Character Creation Workflow — Stéphane Biava

Connecting Blender and Unreal Engine: A Full Character Creation Workflow — BCON26

Adventures in Space and Time: How to Make Exciting Planetarium Films — Tommy Howell

Adventures in Space and Time: How to Make Exciting Planetarium Films — BCON26

Production Lessons of Singularity - A Painterly Short by Blender Studio — Andy Goralczyk, Demeter Dzadik, Vivien Lulkowski, Julien Kaspar, Simon Thommes, Rik Schutte

Production Lessons of Singularity - A Painterly Short by Blender Studio — BCON26

Co-Creating 3D Data Animations With Code — Neele Dijkstra, Torben Hanegraaf, Jop van Roosmalen

Co-Creating 3D Data Animations With Code — BCON26

Procedural Workflows with Gaussian Splatting — Sören Schmidt-Clausen

Procedural Workflows with Gaussian Splatting — BCON26

Enter the Dome: Rendering for Planetariums — Brent Patterson

Enter the Dome: Rendering for Planetariums — BCON26

In Search of Indian — Archit Vazé

In Search of Indian — BCON26

Subject Extraction for Scene Reconstruction in VFX — Vincent Dorenkamp

Subject Extraction for Scene Reconstruction in VFX — BCON26

Wacom “Dougu-ya” Craftsmanship - Pen and Ink, Human Instruments for Digital Creators — Nobu Ide

Wacom "Dougu-ya" Craftsmanship - Pen and Ink, Human Instruments for Digital Creators — BCON26

Behind the Water FXs of In Waves — Paul Szajner, Caroline Hemaya

Behind the Water FXs of In Waves — BCON26

Tools and Assets for Architecture — Joao Baptista

Tools and Assets for Architecture — BCON26

Mockups and Prototypes at Blender — Dalai Felinto, Pablo Vazquez

Mockups and Prototypes at Blender — BCON26

Thursday, 24th September 2026

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From Stardust to Black Holes: Visualising the Physics of Stellar Evolution in Blender — Ben de Fries

From Stardust to Black Holes: Visualising the Physics of Stellar Evolution in Blender — BCON26

Check Norris Never Dies - Evolving to Pyblish — Axel Tillement, Swann Martinez

Check Norris Never Dies - Evolving to Pyblish — BCON26

Fun 2.5 Shading with the Beauty of Community Forums — Matt Curtis

Fun 2.5 Shading with the Beauty of Community Forums — BCON26

Warping the Cosmos: An Adaptable Anamorphic Video for Undefined Immersive Spaces — Daniele de Luca

Warping the Cosmos: An Adaptable Anamorphic Video for Undefined Immersive Spaces — BCON26

Le truc Studio: Creativity in Pairs — Albin Merle, Romain Delaunay

le truc Studio: Creativity in Pairs — BCON26

Graph Visualization and Analysis with SciGraphs — José Marín

Graph Visualization and Analysis with SciGraphs — BCON26

The Journey of a Pixel — Jeroen Bakker

The Journey of a Pixel — BCON26

The Future of Rendering — Jules Urbach

The Future of Rendering — BCON26

How Compositing is Reshaping Blender — Habib Gahbiche

How Compositing is Reshaping Blender — BCON26

From Final_FINAL_v3 to Making an African Short Film — Taiwo Folu

From Final_FINAL_v3 to Making an African Short Film — BCON26

CloudRig: Rigging ALL THE THINGS! — Demeter Dzadik

CloudRig: Rigging ALL THE THINGS! — BCON26

How Not to Build a Shading Language — Clément Foucault

How Not to Build a Shading Language — BCON26

NURBS of NODES - SurfacePsycho Adventure — Romain Guimbal

NURBS of NODES - SurfacePsycho Adventure — BCON26

SIG - AI Enabled Tools And Workflows — Oscar Baechler

Blender Conference 2026: AI-Enabled Tools and Workflows SIG

Automotive Design in Blender — Kim Jern, Rodrigo Candell, Ardalan Farboud

Automotive Design in Blender — BCON26

The Power of Curves — Iwo Pilc

The Power of Curves — BCON26

Continuing a Lie: Creatures! — Omar Hewady

Continuing a Lie: Creatures! — BCON26

Creative Misuse of the 3D Toolbox — Markus Biegholdt, Rob Green

Creative Misuse of the 3D Toolbox — BCON26

A holistic guide to the Hollywood VFX colour pipeline — Mark Boorer

A holistic guide to the Hollywood VFX colour pipeline — BCON26

Non-Destructive Mesh Fusion Without SDF or Remesh — Mattia Miccoli

Non-Destructive Mesh Fusion Without SDF or Remesh — BCON26

The Quest for the Ultimate Stylized Mouth Rig — Maor Fridman

The Quest for the Ultimate Stylized Mouth Rig — BCON26

Building KIDDO : Merging Polygonal Modeling, CAD, and Electronics — Obride Deki

Building KIDDO : Merging Polygonal Modeling, CAD, and Electronics — BCON26

Fisherwoman Item Song — Suresh Eriyat

Fisherwoman Item Song — BCON26

Grease Pencil Goodies - Story Tools, New Brushes & the VSE Editor — Laura Gingrich

Grease Pencil Goodies - Story Tools, New Brushes & the VSE Editor — BCON26

Grooming Seth Rogen: Restoring a Hairline for a High-Stakes Commercial — Christopher Strommer

Grooming Seth Rogen: Restoring a Hairline for a High-Stakes Commercial — BCON26

BBC’s ‘Crongton’ - From design to realization — Ricardo David

BBC’s 'Crongton' - From design to realization — BCON26

The Spinal Spline: Geometry Nodes Framework for Built Environments — Gilad Harnik

The Spinal Spline: Geometry Nodes Framework for Built Environments — BCON26

An Automated Pipeline for Construction 4D Reporting — Huang Hing Pang, David Felix

An Automated Pipeline for Construction 4D Reporting — BCON26

Grandma Z: Clay Pencil Animation, an Official Blender Lab Project — Daniel Martinez Lara

Grandma Z: Clay Pencil Animation, an Official Blender Lab Project — BCON26

Fully Procedural Climbing Gyms and Route Setting — Atlas Hasırcı

Fully Procedural Climbing Gyms and Route Setting — BCON26

AutoTrack: Smart, Easy and Automated Camera Tracking — Siemen Lens

AutoTrack: Smart, Easy and Automated Camera Tracking — BCON26

Yuify Your Mesh to Say Who Made It: Micromarking and Self-Sovereign Identity — Lars Lenz, Joss Giffard-Burley

Yuify Your Mesh to Say Who Made It: Micromarking and Self-Sovereign Identity — BCON26

Build Your Node Trees With Code — Brady Jphnston

Build Your Node Trees With Code — BCON26

Neuromechanical Modeling and Simulation of Animals and Robots — Shravan Tata Ramalingasetty

Neuromechanical Modeling and Simulation of Animals and Robots — BCON26

Building a Complete Animation Pipeline for a Feature Film with a Woolly Look — Juan Carlos Garcia del Blanco, Antonio Javier Torralba Moreno

Building a Complete Animation Pipeline for a Feature Film with a Woolly Look — BCON26

Lightning Talks — Tomas Dinges (moderation), various speakers

Lightning Talks — BCON26

Suzanne Awards Ceremony

Suzanne Awards — BCON26

Friday, 25th September 2026

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Every Hair Deliberate: A Photoreal Cat in Hair Curves — Steve Chow, Alex Parker

Every Hair Deliberate: A Photoreal Cat in Hair Curves — BCON26

3D-to-2D Animation Smear Effect Technique Based on Japanese Hand-Drawn Style — Shu-Ting Lin

3D-to-2D Animation Smear Effect Technique Based on Japanese Hand-Drawn Style — BCON26

Curiosity: The Distance Between Dreaming and Doing — Eynn Barros

Curiosity: The Distance Between Dreaming and Doing — BCON26

Mathemagics: Building Assets for Realtime Effects — John Einselen

Mathemagics: Building Assets for Realtime Effects — BCON26

PBRT 2: Creating and Working with Large Scenes — Gustaf Waldemarson

PBRT 2: Creating and Working with Large Scenes — BCON26

From Vertex to T. Rex: 3D Printing My Own Hall of Dinosaurs — Alex Chamberlain

From Vertex to T. Rex: 3D Printing My Own Hall of Dinosaurs — BCON26

GN-to-UV: Hacking Coordinates with Geometry Nodes — Jindřich Olšar

GN-to-UV: Hacking Coordinates with Geometry Nodes — BCON26

How Blender Changed Theatre — Marcus Möller

How Blender Changed Theatre — BCON26

Imposter Syndrome — Thomas R. Murphy

Imposter Syndrome — BCON26

OpenPBR: Road to Expressive and Interoperable Material Models — Sebastian Herholz, Weizen Huang

OpenPBR: Road to Expressive and Interoperable Material Models — BCON26

Headless Heads: Calibrated Digital Human Pipelines with Cycles — Patrick Anderson

Headless Heads: Calibrated Digital Human Pipelines with Cycles — BCON26

Building Procedural Simulation Environments — Felipe Oliveira Ribas

Building Procedural Simulation Environments — BCON26

Practical XR Bridge to Blender Spatial Workflows — Ruoya Sheng, Junfeng She

Practical XR Bridge to Blender Spatial Workflows — BCON26

Cella: 3D Data Visualization for Plant Single-Cell Transcriptomics — Sampo Muranen

Cella: 3D Data Visualization for Plant Single-Cell Transcriptomics — BCON26

Fall of Reach - Guide to Epic Sci-Fi for Small Studios — Julien Blarel

Fall of Reach - Guide to Epic Sci-Fi for Small Studios — BCON26

Audio Nodes: Live Sound, Live Geometry — Cem Özcan

Audio Nodes: Live Sound, Living Geometry — BCON26

Integrated Design Workflows for Architectures — Arcangelo Gabriele D’Alessandro
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inFSyph-qLs

From Scene to Sensor: Synthetic LiDAR for Autonomous Systems — Michael Schwingshackl

From Scene to Sensor: Synthetic LiDAR for Autonomous Systems — BCON26

Vtubing Using EEVEE/Cycles DLSS — Tse Cheng

Vtubing Using EEVEE/Cycles DLSS — BCON26

Protecting Creative Momentum: When the ‘Wrong’ Way Is the Right Way — Mike Yakovlev

Protecting Creative Momentum: When the 'Wrong' Way Is the Right Way — BCON26

Intel Open Image Denoise 3: Fast Temporal Denoising & Supersampling in Cycles — Christoph Neuhauser

Intel Open Image Denoise 3: Fast Temporal Denoising & Supersampling in Cycles — BCON26

APX & AVX10: The Next Evolution of x86 — Leonhard Rannabauer

APX & AVX10: The Next Evolution of x86 — BCON26

2D Comic Style in 3D: Shapes! Lines! Shading! — Sacha Goedegebure

2D Comic Style in 3D: Shapes! Lines! Shading! — BCON26

Porting Blender to Android — Jonas Holzman

Porting Blender to Android — BCON26

Designing Lattice Infills to Control Mechanical Behaviour — Mehmet Kala

Designing Lattice Infills to Control Mechanical Behaviour — BCON26

The Colleagtion: Phygital, Self-Funded and Lightning Fast — Egor Basiubin, Nidzhat Guseynov

The Colleagtion: Phygital, Self-Funded and Lightning Fast — BCON26

Blender JAM: A Collective Animation Experiment — Eli Rabinovich

Blender JAM: A Collective Animation Experiment — BCON26

Scientific Data on Surfaces — Nicole Feng

Scientific Data on Surfaces — BCON26

SciExplorer: From Microscopy Data to Interactive Scientific Visualisation — Alisa Ovsiannikova

SciExplorer: From Microscopy Data to Interactive Scientific Visualisation — BCON26

Closing Event — Francesco Siddi

Closing Event — BCON26

[AlphaChannel]

and todays talks have started appearing..

Check Norris Never Dies - Evolving to Pyblish — BCON26

[hurtle (sam)]

@Kologe

Motion Sculpting: A New Animation Paradigm — Nacho de Andrés

Thanks for the link Kologe. The Motion Sculpting talk by Nacho de Andrés was great.

[yassine_sidqui]

what an amazing guy

[Tamuna]

And here I was wondering what to watch, this is some extensive goodness that dropped

[Renzatic (In Desperate Need Of A)]

@Kologe

Porting Blender to Android — Jonas Holzman

Nice! Finally! I’ve been waiting on some tablet news for awhile now.

[AlphaChannel]

A ‘secret’ talk landed today, quick before it gets taken down!

https://www.youtube.com/live/TS3SVEBfH0c?is=MUpJHuDiIhbRHxu8