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Jan van den Hemel writes: One easy way to create holes in 3D models, is by using a black and white texture. This is especially useful for cloth objects. However you can also turn it into geometry with thickness for 3D printing, with just a few modifiers.

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Rudy Michau writes: Dear CG Thinkers, welcome! On today’s menu: roasted GPUs! We’ll dive into how volume rendering works in Cycles and how to push your settings to reveal every bit of detail in your procedural clouds. I’ll take you through how I discovered the problem, the experiments I tried, and how I finally solved [...]

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I really like Marble Run videos, and Alan Luk's latest one adds a neat new design aspect to it!  

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3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Explore how to turn the invisible world of magnetism into beautiful motion graphics using Geometry Nodes in Blender 4.5. In this tutorial, we’ll build a magnetic field visualization from scratch - step by step - while learning the physics behind it. A perfect blend of science, design, and procedural creativity. Happy Noding [...]

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Model, UV, bake, texture a stylized lantern in Blender + Substance 3D Painter; light and render a game-ready light prop with this new 3D Tudor course. If your props fall apart at UVs or look flat after rendering, this new course gives you a clean, end-to-end lane: Blender modeling with stack hygiene, UVs with texel [...]

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MartinKlekner writes: In this Blender tutorial, I show my complete stylized shading workflow used in Heroes of Bronze, perfect for creating anime-style, hand-painted, or NPR (non-photorealistic) renders in Eevee. Learn how to use the Shader to RGB and Color Ramp nodes for clean toon shading, add texture painting for detail, and enhance your models with [...]

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If you’ve ever opened the Shader Editor and felt overwhelmed, this video breaks down all the essential nodes you actually need to create stunning materials in Blender. Whether you make stylized art, cozy fantasy scenes, or game-ready assets, this guide will make materials click for you. In this video you’ll learn: The 10 most important [...]

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Jan van den Hemel writes: In this video, we do a beginner-friendly deep dive into the "double subdivision" method which is a very easy, fast and fun way of making 3D models.

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benjaminaubone writes: Hello dear family of Bender artists! Adventures, humor, and mystery await you in the new animated short "Adventures of the Future." It's made entirely in Blender Grease Pencil. I'll be waiting for you.

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The latest BlenderKit update adds 5.0 alpha support, workflow optimizations and more! We’re excited to announce the release of BlenderKit 3.17.0! This update brings major improvements to the Asset Bar — including forward/backward navigation and better drag-and-drop to collections — along with numerous bug fixes and full support for Blender 5.0.0-alpha. While we don’t recommend [...]

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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: [Collab] Looking for a 3D Animator 3d animation and 3d modeling of internal watch mechanism Looking for a character artist to clean up, segment meshes and repose for 3D printing Seeking animators willing to work for $250 to $300 per [...]

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In this tutorial Dad's Castle shares a different approach to creating stylized trees using grease pencil brushes and the free “Grease Pencil to Curves” Blender extension. It’s quick and easy to do, requiring no artistic skills in grease pencil. Enjoy and have a great day!

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Welcomes Jonas Holzman starts as Blender developer in Amsterdam working on macOS development and maintenance, VR UI and features and tablet development. Mark van de Ruit starts as Blender developer in Amsterdam, working on Eevee, the viewport, and graphics problems in general. Announcements Blender Feedback Survey [...]

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Let’s have a look at the new built-in scattering tool in Blender 5!

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Have you ever tried to create a full-character hair groom? Did it look broken, with bald spots or just wrong? Were you frustrated because the hair curves seemed to move at their own will?

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Ryan King Art writes: In this 6 part Blender tutorial series we will create this cute robot character animation. https://youtu.be/HnKXVDo6R0Q?si=bTfiFMaLdcyjoMDz

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This presentation explores how Blender is being used within the digitalization strategy of Territorio Mudéjar—a network of rural municipalities in Spain—to integrate 3D photogrammetric models of Mudejar heritage into open, interoperable systems for education, conservation, and public engagement. By aligning with the FAIR principles and Europeana standards, we demonstrate how Blender supports high-quality rendering, annotation, [...]

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Daniel Oakfield writes: Explore the process of creating advanced X-ray materials in Blender through this comprehensive tutorial. The video emphasizes the use of shader nodes to develop realistic effects suitable for technical and medical visualization. This material is particularly beneficial for animating biological elements, allowing for detailed representations of anatomical structures. Additionally, its application extends [...]

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Hearing sound is fun, but being able to see it is even cooler ! From technical challenges to UI accessibility, follow a 3 year journey on how geonodes and python made it possible to create a 3D spectrogram in Blender.

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