Blender 5.3 is CRAZY | Everything New in Blender 5.3

Blender 5.3 comes out on November 10th. Here is what is changing, feature by feature: native Gaussian splats, new material lighting nodes for toon shading in Eevee, panoramic cameras, dispersion and anisotropic glass in Cycles, DLSS denoising, the Grease Pencil Carver tool, better animation tools, new Geometry Nodes, the compositor effects stack, ripple editing in the video editor, and the new project system. Feature details come from the Blender 5.3 development notes. Some numbers (like the compositor speed-ups) are reported figures and can change before release. ## Chapters 0:00 Blender 5.3 on November 10 0:21 Gaussian splats 0:55 Material lighting nodes (toon shading) 1:28 Eevee: panoramic cameras, sun disc, bloom 1:43 Cycles: dispersion, frosted glass, DLSS 2:05 Grease Pencil Carver and Fill 2:19 Animation tools 2:43 Geometry Nodes and shader nodes 2:59 Compositor effects stack 3:17 Video editor: ripple editing 3:41 Project system 3:53 Smaller changes 4:14 What's missing