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Animation: Fairy Halloween
Aleksandr Rodionov created this Halloween animation - the fabric was created in Marvelous designer. Animating and setting up the scene in a Blender. Cycles render.
Best of Blender Artists: 2024-43
Enjoy our selection of the top art from the Blender Artists forum this week!
Blender Jobs for October 25, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Paid Rigging job of existing model. For more jobs, look here.
The 10 Best New Features Coming to Blender 4.3 So Far
Get ready to elevate your 3D modeling and animation game with SouthernShotty's countdown of the 10 best new features coming to Blender 4.3! Here is a teaser of upcoming features. This video discusses: Vulcan experimental rendering replacing OpenGL, improving speed, especially in the viewport. Introduction to light and shadow linking in Eevee for enhanced creative [...]
Blender Jobs for October 24, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Character Animator Paid project: Blender rendering tutorial creation (SaladCloud) 2D-3D Generalist Artist at DIGITAL SUN GAMES Need a blender GLTF 3D animated/interactive image created from my 2D image Model and texture an electronic Sign For more jobs, look here.
Creating Imaginary Architecture in Blender 3D
Timmatkovic shares the creation process of his 'Imaginary Architecture' artwork that he recently posted on Blender Artists.
Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes have so much potential in 4.3
Geometry nodes and grease pencil can play together now, with this and the new for-each zone, way more is possible now! Joey Carlino shows to make a different mesh per frame, how to make a curve filling setup, and how to make hair with grease pencil.
Behind the Scenes: Miles NYC
Discover the creative process behind the spectacular animation of Spider-Man, with a style inspired by the Spider-Verse movies, created by 3D artist Jack Bowman. INTRODUCTION Hello, my name is Jack Bowman, and I've been working as a 3D artist in Blender since 2022. This project was my submission for Pwnisher’s month-long challenge, “Kinetic Rush.” The [...]
Free Download: Medieval-Fantasy Props
Chuck_CG shares this collection of 50 props for your medieval scenes, free to use for both personal and commercial work! Medieval and Fantasy Props Collection: More than 50 game ready props 4K-2k PBR textures (metal/roughness) Included FBX with embedded textures Separate folder withTextures available to download Open GL and Direct X Normal maps included in [...]
Straighten UV Islands Fast with Mio 3 UV
There's a new - free - UV Mapping Addon for Blender: Mio 3 UV. Luis Roach shows how to use it. For those of you working with 3D modeling in Blender, UV unwrapping can sometimes be a tedious task, especially when trying to straighten UV islands and maintain hard edges. I just released a new [...]
Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 21 October 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2024-10-08 Sequencer meeting notes 2024-10-08 Compositor meeting notes 2024-10-17 Core Meeting 2024-10-17 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2024-10-17 Pipeline, Assets & I/O Meeting New Features and Changes Please check out the git logs on projects.blender.org to see what changed last week. Weekly Reports [...]
Skeleton Hand Tutorial
Let’s use Rigify addon and it’s armatures as template to easily create fully rigged skeleton hand in Blender.
Building a Stylized House in Blender (for Beginners!)
The Bob Ross of Blender is back and he's teaching us to build a house, and to relax at the same time ;-) The Joy of Blender writes: In this Blender tutorial for beginners, we'll dive into everything you need to a make fun little stylized house in Blender: Modeling, Texturing, Lighting, Geometry Nodes, Procedural [...]
Blender Jobs for October 22, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I need help with several projects, to much work :D For more jobs, look here.
Blender Jobs for October 21, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Senior 3D Artist / Animator at Sozo Labs For more jobs, look here.
How do Graphics Cards Work? Exploring GPU Architecture
Branch Education shares another educational video created in Blender. Graphics Cards can run some of the most incredible video games, but how many calculations do they perform every single second? Well, some of the most advanced graphics perform 36 Trillion calculations or more every single second. But how can a single device manage these tens [...]
Ucupaint - Layer based painting for Eevee and Cycles
Ucupaint is a free Blender addon to manage texture layers for the Eevee and Cycles renderers. It lets you stack images, textures, and vertex colors into layers with mask and baking support. Key features are: Stack images, vertex attributes, generated textures, or many other types into layers and masks. All Ucupaint nodes are contained inside [...]
Mesh Modeling Fundamentals on CG Cookie [$, promoted]
Let's model! In this course, CG Cookie is going to talk about the foundational, most important tools and concepts that you’ll need throughout your modeling journey, whether you’re going into games, animation, visual effects, industrial design, architecture, or any field of computer graphics. Model basic objects with ease and have a good idea of how [...]
Geo Nodes Quick Tip: How to Scale The Radius of a Curve in Blender?
In this quick Blender tip, Kenan Proffitt goes over the nodes set up you need in order to have full control over scaling the radius of your geo nodes curve object in the blender viewport. There are just a few steps needed to achieve this, and once you know them you can unlock many powerful [...]
Blender 4.2.3 & 3.6.17 LTS - Bugfix Releases
The Long Term Support versions of Blender 3.6 and 4.2 have received updates. These 'LTS' releases are for users who don't need the latest features and are instead looking for a reliable and stable Blender environment. They only receive critical fixes throughout a 2-year time span. Any critical fix that is applied to the latest [...]
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