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Get the 2023 version of the digital painting and animation app for free, then donate to help get the latest version released as freeware.

A 'personal and practical field guide' for artists, Beauty in the Beast draws of Page's three decades of work on movies like Avatar and Cloverfield.

Hakki Kucuk writes: In this video tutorial, I will show you some basic tips & tricks to get the most out of your old hardware to use Blender as efficiently as possible. The hardware I am using in this video has "CPU: Intel i7-3520M (4) @ 3.600GHz" and no GPU... Overall it has a median [...]

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Create portfolio-worthy 3D terrain in World Creator and Blender with the help of The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level tutorial.

Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I'm putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Braintrust | 3D Artist Generalist - Community Labs Motion Recruitment | Technical Artist – 3D Robotics Simulation Unreal Engine Cinematic Artist (Ontario) Character design and sculpting WarmCerealGames | 3D Environmental Artist Finite Games Studio | 3D Game Character Artist Funko [...]

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Dikko writes: In this comprehensive walkthrough, discover the best tips I have for retopology of a body sculpt that is super efficient for animation. This video shows the process in real time, with no timelapses or skips, so you don't miss out on any crucial information or methods.

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New purpose-built app is designed for playing back environments onto LED walls. Read our FAQs on its workflow and requirements.

Check out the latest features in the VR modeling software. New Connector plugin syncing Modeler to Unreal Engine 5 now in beta.

Popular 3D tree generator gets new Skeleton tool for creating animation rigs, and new workflows to reduce tree poly counts for use in games.

Check out the new features, price and release date for the next major update to the 3D character creation software for games and VFX.

Get new versions of particle tools Krakatoa MX, Frost MX, Stoke MX and XMesh MX recompiled to support current versions of 3ds Max.

Lino Thomas shares his approach on how to create large scenes which contain a lot of detail using collection instances. This approach allows you to create a dense world without using a lot of time nor resources. If you have not been using collection instances regularly, this might be the workflow for you!

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With Verge3D extension you can squeeze a Blender scene into HTML format! The resulting standalone .html file bundles all the geometry, textures, and animations together. It also provides basic orbiting and first-person controls, as well as the possibility to use navigation mesh. This all-in package is a regular HTML file that can be opened on [...]

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Maarten Nauta used a combination of Blender, Gaea, SpeedTree and Houdini for this short video. The Rise and Fall of a mighty castle. A fun personal project with the main goal of learning a bunch of new skills. I learned a lot about Houdini Pyro and RB FX. I got lots of practice in SpeedTree [...]

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Get Leartes Studios' Carpenter's Workshop Environment pack of 3D assets for free for two weeks on the Fab marketplace. Commercial use.

The 3DT Stylized Rocks & Cliffs Pack is designed to remove the biggest headaches in environment design—slow sculpting, messy seams, and a lack of modular flexibility. Built in collaboration with Marcus Rosefield (creator of the popular Stylized Ruins Pack), this collection gives you everything you need to create dramatic cliffscapes, rocky outcrops, and floating islands—without [...]

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