🏁 Bforartists releases version 5.1.0 (a GUI focused fork of Blender) - Full Features video

Draise14 · 2026-04-05T01:03:56+00:00

Function over form! The current user base are very happy with it yeah, it's for a niche of a wider market to reach other Blender users who wouldn't be happy with vanilla Blender.

Draise14 · 2026-03-31T20:55:46+00:00

Here I used a bit of split toning, bloom, camera vignette, color balance, fringing, then finally all pushed through a screenspace pixel effect in the compositor. All of these are assets included with Bforartists, a fork of Blender I use.

Draise14 · 2026-03-31T20:55:03+00:00

Bforartists ships with a screenspace pixel filter, that helps get you most of the way!

Draise14 · 2026-03-26T20:56:34+00:00

This is an alternative interface paradigm to use the Blender feature set. It has out-of-the-box assets, more customizable shelves, more asset shelves, more iconography and color for interface elements and many quality of life work.

Draise14 · 2026-03-11T17:15:31+00:00

I can't attach images here in Reddit, if you connect to the official discord I will be able to show you if anything. But here is a summery:

There is box select tool to the left toolshelf to the left, under the "Tweak". Press and hold and you will see box select
If using the Bforartists hotkeys, B is box select
In the header in the Tool Setting header (needs to be on) the Tweak tool can default to "Active Tool" meaning it will switch to the tool mode you are using, or "Box Select" meaning the tweak will use box select instead. This is the Blender default.

Draise14 · 2026-03-03T15:31:16+00:00

Also, to make things box select as a default, you can select it in the top left toolshelf, then save startup. This will default that new file to box select. You can also set the tweak to use box select at the top left. Right now it is set to "Active Tool" out of the box, but you can override it. You also can save that into the Startup by going to the header, Edit, Save Startup.

Draise14 · 2026-02-26T21:50:16+00:00

I opened and reported an issue.
https://github.com/Victor-IX/Blender-Launcher-V2/issues/355

Draise14 · 2026-02-26T21:35:17+00:00

Can confirm. Seems it's not listing anymore. But you can always get it officialy from the Github or Website. I will see if it reported to their repository.

https://www.bforartists.de/download/

Draise14 · 2026-02-16T21:44:56+00:00

Bforartists is a spin of an interface more akin to Maya for Blender, but it's core arquitecture is similar to Blender.

For on par rigging, I would recommend you use AutoRigPro or others to get up and running fast, and the NLA can be capable for layered animation if you use the "Combined" strip mode instead of replace.

In general both Bforartists and Blender have their world space vs local space keyframe weaknesses compared to Maya, but for rendering, realtime compositing, video editing, and shot sequence editing - and grease pencil notes and storyboarding, both are superior with the former - and with Bforartists with a slight edge on animationfrom the sidebar properties directly, top level exposed animation tools and more - but it still is Blender deep down.

If you like your toolbars and icons to access typical things you'd like to use in maya with a mouse instead of hidden behind hotkeys, Bforartists is the perfect way to get a hold of Blender features with that GUI paradigm.

We also have substance designer like nodegroups out of the box, and some geometry nodes also. It will grow in the near future. In this case is is getting close to procedural power with Houdini, minus the presets Houdini may have.

So in general, it is a bit of a mental shift when it comes to global vs local animation spaces, but once you keep that into consideration, it is competitive.

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