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Blender Jobs for September 16, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking for help modeling a character For more jobs, look here.
Anime Short Film | Samurai Blue: Afterimage
In "Samurai Blue: Afterimage", Yoko Yoshino hits the road for the first time after the death of her brother, the infamous street racer “Samurai Blue”. Can she reach the finish line with her nerves – and car – intact? Created by Winterstellar Studios in Blender and Goo Engine - a custom build of Blender that [...]
Add Water Droplets to Any Model With This Free Download
This free geometry nodes setup makes it easy to add water droplets to any Blender model. The results can be customized using the following options: Collection - by default, uses the built-in collection of droplet models, but you can replace this with anything (like Suzanne) Minimum distance - controls the space between the droplets Density [...]
BCON '24: Submit your Work for the Suzanne Awards
The Suzanne Awards have been a recurring event during the yearly Blender Conference since 2003: the best Blender work of the year is show in three categories (animation, design and short film), and the audience gets to vote. The winners win the prestigious Suzanne Awards statues. To participate, check the guidelines and submit your best [...]
Blender Jobs for September 15, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: NEX Level Gaming | 3D Animation & Modeling Internship/Co-Op Opportunity [Paid Work] Modelling a STL file of houksai wave. Need expert in Combining Mixamo animations Job Opportunity for Grease Pencil Artists For more jobs, look here.
Learn how to Sculpt A Nose in Blender
Noses, like ears, can be surprisingly hard to model correctly. Follow along with Pixxo 3D to learn how to do it!
Japanese Blender Conference: Blender Fes - Oct 5/6
Blender Fes is a streaming 2-day event for Japanese users! All streams will be archived and subtitled so this could be a way for the rest us to see what's brewing in the Japanese Blender community. The Blender users-only technical exchange event in Japan will be held this October. This event is for individuals who [...]
Behind the Scenes of Kalki: How We Used Blender to Create Stunning VFX in Our First Major Project
Granite Imagery takes us behind the scenes of their first major VFX project, showcasing how they utilized Blender to create stunning environments and complex shots for the film Kalki. This article breaks down their contributions, challenges, and creative process in bringing the film's visual effects to life. More than 16 studios worked on Kalki’s VFX, [...]
TerraForm: Terrain Manipulation Toolkit Update [$]
TerraForm is a Blender addon designed to simplify the process of creating complex realistic landscapes within Blender. It presents a layer based, non destructive workflow that combines both procedural and design based techniques, allowing you to create unique landscapes from scratch with complete control over the final look. This update adds enhanced noise layers for [...]
Blender Jobs for September 12, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Super Hero Concept Artist at TransPerfect Gaming Character Artist (Sports Franchise) at TransPerfect Gaming Looking for programmer for smart fill & my other smart addons Senior Level Artist at Blue Twelve Studio For more jobs, look here.
New Texturing Course: Bring Your Models to Life [$, promoted]
Now streaming on CG Cookie, this course is your deep dive into texturing in Blender. Texturing adds essential details and realism to 3D models, making them look more lifelike and interesting. With just shaders and plain materials, your models might feel flat or incomplete. The process of texturing involves applying images or procedural textures to [...]
BASF's Interactive Infographics Created with Blender [$]
German chemical giant BASF used Blender and Verge3D to create an impressive portfolio of material solutions for the booming green energy market. Run it in your browser here.
[non-Blender] Godot 3.6 Released
Godot, the open source game engine for 2D and 3D projects, just received a big update! After 2 years of development, Godot 3.6 is finally out and it comes fully packed with features and quality of life improvements! This includes 2D physics interpolation and hierarchical culling, and 3D mesh merging, level of detail, tighter shadow [...]
Speed Sculpt: Ren Höek (of Ren & Stimpy)
Here's a blast from the past: Ren & Stimpy was a television comic series in the nineties and it often had me in tears for it's insane humour and style. Reggie Perry, Jr. recreated one of the main characters and even treated us to a speed sculpt complete with the amazing show music (YES, LOG!). [...]
Video: Froogs - Atomic froogs and other adventures
Froogs is an animation project created by Heyvostudio, a small animation studio from northwest Argentina. This project tells the story of a group of frogs who have crazy adventures in a swamp. To develop it, we use Blender, Substance Painter, and Evergen for explosions and smoke particles.
Blender Jobs for September 11, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking for someone who can recreate amazing 3D images PDW | 3D Artist Seeking Animator to Create Animations for Vroid models For more jobs, look here.
Light Studio - Packshot Lighting for Photographers [$, promoted]
Discover Light Studio - The revolutionary Add-on for photorealistic lighting on Blender. We are proud to present Light Studio, our brand-new addon for Blender by Bproduction, designed to radically transform the way you create and design complex and photorealistic lighting for all your 3D scenes. Why choose Light Studio? Light Studio is an essential tool [...]
Blender Developers Meeting Notes: 9 September 2024
Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements VSE Workshop: August 2024 — Blender Developers Blog Modules & Projects 2024-09-03 Render & Cycles Meeting 2024-09-05 Flamenco Dependency Packing / BAT 2024-09-05 Animation & Rigging module meeting 2024-09-09 Viewport/EEVEE Module Meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over [...]
Behind the Scenes: Last Banana
INTRODUCTION Hi, I am Cyril Limoges, a modeler at Tnzpv Studio 3D in France. I graduated from art school as a figurative painter, and was a teacher of applied arts. By chance, I discovered 3D modeling 10 years ago thanks to Blender. Encouraged by a friend, I changed my career path. I never thought I'd make [...]
Bone Widget v2.1 adds Preview Images, Custom libraries and more
Bone Widget is a Blender add-on to assist with making custom bone shapes. It has an editable library of shapes that make it easy to apply to any rig. It ships with many shapes pre-made but you can also add your own to the library to make rigging easier. Wayne Dixon writes: Hello riggers, There [...]
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