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Blender Jobs for May 30, 2025

3 days 3 hours ago
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Rival | 3D Artist / Generalist Python Coder Needed for Custom Add-on, Paid Facial Animator Shape Keys 4710 Productions | Blender Lighting Artist (Unpaid) Freelance Hard Surface 3D Character Modeler / RIgging Python developer to build a custom add-on 🎬 [...]

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Bart

3 Ways to Utilize Proxies in Blender

4 days 2 hours ago
Spencer Magnusson writes: Proxies are a common industry standard in reducing geometry and making the viewport faster. Few people know that Blender already utilizes proxies within Blender. Let me show you 3 methods (2 of which are automatic!).

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Spencer Magnusson

SkySplat: Drone video to 3D Gaussian Splat Workflow Addon

4 days 4 hours ago
SkySplat is a free Blender addon that simplifies the workflow for creating 3D Gaussian Splats from drone footage. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline the process from video import to frame extraction, and loose integration of Blender with COLMAP and GraphDeco-INRIA's gaussian splatting repo. After several sessions of command line tomfoolery, I [...]

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kyjohnso

POV Community Challenge “Worlds Next Door”

6 days 4 hours ago
Calver school presents a global blender community challenge and collaborative short film. This unique initiative invites participants to create imaginative worlds and contribute to a collaborative animated short film, with opportunities to win empowering tools, software and gain industry recognition. Challenge Timeline: Challenge Start & Template Release: June 8, 2025 Submission Deadline: July 6, 2025 [...]

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Nivlac95

Free HDRI pack for Blender

1 week ago
Simon Lachapelle offers a new collection of professional-grade HDRi plates. Simon writes: Hey Blender friends, 👋 Over the past year, I’ve been studying how to create the best HDRIs possible and traveling around to capture and build a high-quality HDRI pack. I've been working in the VFX industry for the past 10 years, and this [...]

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simonlachapelle

Google Summer of Code: Call for Applications

1 week 2 days ago
Every year, Google hosts their ‘Summer of Code’, a program to stimulate Open Source development by mentoring new developers for selected projects. If you’re interested to contribute to Blender with this 12-week long program, you can apply now!

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Bart

Blender 4.4 Brushes Are A Mess, Here's A Fix

1 week 2 days ago
In this video, Michael Bridges dives into the recent changes to how brushes work in Blender since version 4.3, especially in the 2D animation workspace with Grease Pencil. I explore the new asset-based system for brushes, which, while promising, presents a few usability challenges—particularly when it comes to customizing or creating new brushes. The interface [...]

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Michael Bridges

Blender Jobs for May 23, 2025

1 week 3 days ago
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Bode Software | 3D prop and environment artist Looking for a 3d modeller to TieTalent | Senior Game Artist Mercor | 3D Artist Mercor | 3D Generalist Wiraa | 3D Game Artist Help with finalizing first animation scene for new [...]

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Bart

Death to Squishies

1 week 3 days ago
I asked Marcin Cieśla to tell us about his 'Death to Squishies' animation that was featured on BlenderArtists in March. Get ready for the delights and despairs of a one-man animation project which included dancing in front of his phone girl-band style for reference! A stort story about a certain animation. “Death to Squishies” from [...]

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Bart

Animate for Concept Art: The New Workflow Combining AI [$, promoted]

1 week 3 days ago
Redefine Concept Art with Animation and AI Guidance using Reallysion's iClone. Hello, I’m Jakub Kaźmierczak, a concept artist specializing in environment concept art and key frames. I have been in the industry for the past 7 years. In my professional career, I work mostly for movies and game cinematics. Some projects being: “Three Body Problem”, [...]

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Bart

In depth video - Fast Global Illumination Add Mode

1 week 4 days ago
Global Illumination calculates simulated how light in a scene behaves. It simulates light bouncing around and spreading diffusely by calculating object proximity, angles and more. It gives quite convincing results, but can be slow. James Crowther shows how to optimise it in your scenes for better rendering times. Just yesterday we released another video on [...]

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Jamesy

Behind the Scenes: Secret Bunker Roller Coaster Ride

1 week 5 days ago
Marty created this wild roller coaster ride and shares a detailed breakdown on Blender Artists. This is a project I’ve been working on for a while now – an animation of a wild roller coaster ride through a secret bunker hideout in the middle of the ocean! If you’re interested in how I made this [...]

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Bart

Manage Backgrounds with the Free Blueprints Add-on

1 week 5 days ago
Robert Rioux offers a free Blender add-on to easily manage background images for modeling. It will automatically set up all views and gives you the possibility to "swap axis" so the the X axis becomes the front view. Itm allows you to adjust all images at the same time too.

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