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Gleb Alexandrov writes: We’ve just released our new course! 🔥 EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering. It’s for those who want to produce stunningly realistic lighting right up there with Cycles and other path-tracing engines in Blender 5.x – at a fraction of the render time.

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In a race against time to reach the first space cruiser, which has been hijacked, the crew of the patrol ship Argos are intercepted by a military unit with attack robots determined to eliminate them. With their skill and cleverness, the Argos crew will do all they can to shake off their pursuers and continue [...]

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Let’s cook up something festive in geometry nodes for the holidays! Learn how to make a seamless and procedural motion design loop. Enjoy!

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Procedural materials can be incredibly powerful—until they’re not. Michael Bridges dives into a common issue that comes up when applying procedural textures to curves and pipes, particularly when UV mapping starts to stretch and distort. If you've ever found your materials looking strange on longer or more complex shapes, you'll know exactly what I mean. [...]

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Another awesome marble race video by Alan Luk.

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When working between multiple 3D Software, you might have some compatibility issues with the Normal Map format, here's how to fix it.

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benjaminaubone writes: Hello dear BlenderNation family! I'm pleased to present "Mecha Cat Monster Hunter," an animated short film made entirely in Grease Pencil. Hugs!

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I love the epic scale of the scenes in Kaleab Aklilu's reel!

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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: I need Build a low-poly 3D version of a section of map coordinates set in Blender 5.0 using rea 3D Character Artist — Animated AI Companion Dog I need a model of a wristwatch that would also fit on a [...]

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Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Manual & UI Translations Cleanup: Removal of Inactive, Empty Translations Modules & Projects 2025-12-02 User Interface Meeting 2025-12-02 XR Meeting 2025-12-02 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2025-12-04 Core Module Meeting 2025-12-04 Compositor Meeting Notes 2025-12-04 Platforms & Builds module meeting 2025-12-08 Viewport & EEVEE module [...]

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In this tutorial you'll learn how to generate Minecraft-like worlds inside of Blender using a free add-on. Get the Minecraft Generator here.

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Thanks to Blender 5.0's new Array Modifier, Dad's Castle shares a different approach to creating stylized pine trees using grease pencil brushes and the free “Grease Pencil to Curves” Blender extension. It’s easy to do, requiring no artistic skills in grease pencil. Enjoy and have a great day!

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Take a quiet tour around a wonderful world with Viral Chaudhari's Paperworld. A project to emulate paper craft virtually in 3D. I wanted the train to run naturally. In spite of animating the whole train, I went through some physics simulation test on train to run on tracks. It worked well. Rendered through Cycles Engine. [...]

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Blender is the fastest tool to edit videos, especially if your editing requires a lot of cutting and moving strips. Mumu Mundo writes: For some time now, I've been using Blender's VSE (Video Sequence Editor) for all my YouTube tutorials, and in this video, I'll show you my setup and all the tricks I've learned [...]

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What makes a good rig? And what are the requirements to make production ready rigs in Blender? In this video Vlad, Technical Director at TOAnimate, teaches 4 principles to help you make professional quality rigs, and how to avoid common mistakes. Following these principles will not only improve your rigging workflow, but it will also [...]

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3DSinghVFX writes: Hi. Create a stunning liquid-glass molecular effect with inner structure and multi-materials using the new Volume Grid Nodes in Blender 5.0. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to form smooth, reflective connections and organic structures procedurally. Perfect for motion graphics, abstract visuals, and futuristic design renders. Happy Noding ... :)

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Low-Poly Layered Fantasy City (Vertical Cutaway Blockout) — $150 Lead 3D Generalist (Blender) – Animation & Pipeline Builder Senior 2D Gaming Artist I need someone who can write script and code to add additional new feature to an existing addon [...]

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Gleb Alexandrov shares an incredibly polished EEVEE reel. EEVEE in Blender 5.0 looks unbelievable: experience the demo reel from the research materials for our ‘EEVEE Realistic Lighting & Rendering course’ (which is coming very soon!).

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