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"MR-07" is a cinematic visualization of a futuristic world, entirely created in Blender, with Cycles as the main rendering engine. The core of the scene is a highly detailed sci-fi ship, fully modeled from scratch inside Blender using traditional polygonal modeling techniques. While the main structure of the ship was manually crafted, the scene also [...]

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Spencer Magnusson shares some beginning tips to make the most of your render with some color grading and simple effects in the compositor. Contents: 00:00 How this works + caveat 01:08 setting the scene 03:42 the compositor workspace 04:56 raw colorspace power 08:01 setting exposure 08:17 using Color Balance and Viewer nodes 10:08 fog 12:24 [...]

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dvicemuse writes: Hair physics in the new blender hair system is no longer available (because it's still in development). This video shows how to use the new system easily as a workaround. It implements both the old particle system and the new geometry node system, and teaches you how to switch between two different resolvers. [...]

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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: Environment Artist - Blender and Unreal Engine Closed Help Needed: Kirby 3D Model – Eye Animation for Unreal Engine 3D Generalist - Blender - Unreal Engine /!\ CANADA ONLY /!\: Hard Edge 3D Modeler for both real-time mobile VR and [...]

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Struggling to make your renders look cinematic? This free mini-course by Gleb Alexandrov will teach you how to take your raw render and turn it into a visually striking final image using pro color grading techniques in the Render Raw add-on.

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Check out this awesome fluid sim by BlindIllusionist! I wanted to achieve a simulation like this for a long time and it took me a while to figure it out. But I think I was able to achieve a good effect with Blender and Flip Fluids, trying to replicate this “Houdini-style” simulation of the ship [...]

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Blender 4.5 has landed and it's packed with new nodes, changes to existing nodes and a lot of other geometry node improvements. Harry comments: "This is a big one. I've never animated so many nodes in my life." And he's right! I'm impressed by the amount of motion video work that went into this one, [...]

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Okay, I don't tend to publish a lot of donut videos here as the Blenderverse is flooded with them, but this one by ToothKit is next level! In this video, I show you my donut journey in these days. From Day 1 to Day 1000, hope I make it worthly. The FREE donut file you [...]

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Let’s model and texture an optimized game-ready assets with a wild west theme in Blender!

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A fresh update of the most Blender-friendly Web 3D authoring tool is out. Here is what's new. support for new features of Blender 4.5 new Factory Tour demo featuring street view navigation and 360° panoramas native macOS Installer new puzzle "assign animation" to re-use animation on a different object upgraded "make object from" puzzle and [...]

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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. Note: I had some technical difficulties generating this one - I checked everything twice and hope it went well!

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Companion Group | 3D Character Artist Devoted Studios | 3D Art Director Creston Games | Lead Artist, Game Studio Senior World Environment Artist Precise Systems, Inc. | 3D Graphic Artist Lead Gamut Creative | Character Modeler Crossing Hurdles | Creative [...]

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Reggie Perry, Jr. and Most Incredible Studio created this work for the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Here is some new animation work I created as part of a collaboration between Jimi Hendrix + MoPop + Most Incredible Studio. Huge thanks to Syreeta Gates of Most Incredible Studio for allowing me to animate their [...]

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John R. Nyquist writes: How do you run multiple instances of the SAME version of Blender on a Mac? It is a quick tip, in a nutshell just run this in the Terminal: open -n -a Blender

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Blender users in Nuremberg, Germany are getting together tonight! Gottfried Hofmann writes: NuremBUG, the Blender user group from Nuremberg, Germany meets up again on Monday, July 14th starting 7pm at Coworking Nürnberg (Josephspl. 8, 90403 Nürnberg). As always beginners are welcome.

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Robert Rioux writes: I made this cool extension that allows you to match two meshes with different topologies. Of course they still need to be similar. You are not going to match an airplane with a rabbit. It's free, like all my other admins/extensions. Download the add-on below: click on the release button, download the [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Scopely | Art Lead - Monopoly GO! OtherSide Entertainment | Sr. 3D Artist Jagex | Marketing Artist - Runescape: Dragonwilds Dirtbike models Expanding team: generalist ABI3D | Freelance Parametric 3D Modeler – Fashion & Fabric Printing Storm Eye Studios | [...]

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BlenderKit has just launched version 3.16.1 of its add-on, introducing Printables as an official asset type in its growing 3D asset library. This update includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes, such as improved drag-and-drop functionality, permanent auto-map settings, and refined thumbnail styling for printable assets. BlenderKit is proud to roll out BlenderKit Add-on version 3.16.1! [...]

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Let’s create a complete isometric bedroom illustration from scratch in Blender, including modeling, texturing and lighting!

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