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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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Geometry Nodes in 4.3 got three impressive updates. Learn how to use them in this video by Blender Studio technical artist Simon Thommes.

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Dive into the sci-fi world of Alexander, an Austria-based concept artist, as he illustrates his work with special texturing techniques. INTRODUCTION Hello, my name is Alexander. I am 35 years old and based in Vienna, Austria. I picked up Blender and various illustration software such as Photoshop about two years ago. So, due to my [...]

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Txa_ant offers a wide range of options including landscape type presets, setting strata (layers) and it comes with a material library to use. ChuckCG explains how to use it.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Word reflection is blurry Needed: shader artist familliar with parallax/depth occlusion effects Senior Technical Artist at Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC Product Shots Look development - Lighting & Rendering Artist For more jobs, look here.

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Dorian from bd3d shares an update to his flexible scattering add-on! Hello Blender Nation! 👋 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Geo-Scatter 5.5! Packed with exciting new features, enhancements, and tools, this update is here to redefine your scattering workflows and take your projects to the next level. 🚀 What’s New in Geo-Scatter 5.5? [...]

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Polyhaven shares an amazing library of HDRis, Textures and 3D Models - all for free under a CC0 license. For their latest project, Namaqualand they traveled to the desert for a week to capture as many assets and environments as they could. See how they did it in this video! In September 2023, the Poly [...]

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The latest release of Bproduction's Population crowd simulator for Blender adds finer control over motion paths using pinch/deflate, look target control, new painting and group options and more! What's New in Population V2 ? Paint your crowd: Thanks to the new mode, you can paint your crowd directly in the 3D viewport. Bidirectional Crowd: Characters [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Blender Pros Needed: Character Animators & Artists For more jobs, look here.

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Enjoy the seventh episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, we follow the process around Blender's showcase named Project Gold, by the Blender Studio. The editor and director –documentary maker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lead 3D Character Artist - F/M/NB at NOVAQUARK Creative Technical Lead at OceanX 3D Blender Artist at tobspr Games For more jobs, look here.

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Learn how to scatter grass assets and animate them with Kenan Proffitt.

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Fibonacci sequences and patterns are everywhere in nature, and they can create fascinatingly complex images. Richard van der Oost shows how to generate them with Blender. Today we're making Fibonacci patterns in Geometry Nodes. (using the Golden Ratio) This is what we're aiming for: It's a pattern that emerges in nature quite often. The most [...]

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With the rise of AI motion capture tools, should you still invest into hardware motion capture setups? Jamie Dunbar compares several solutions to let us know. Over the last few years AI motion capture tools have became the rage. In this video I put the most popular AI tools to the test and compare them [...]

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I recently got back into playing chess. This lesson by Bonjourchess covers a basic strategy, but it's a good one!

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [FULLY REMOTE!] Independent Render Wrangler Required For more jobs, look here.

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For a change, Slavoartist moves away from his usual complex scenes to focus on the beauty of simplicity. Minimalism. Honestly, I am a big fan of minimalistic art and photos. Despite the fact that I usually show some complex Blender scenes and talk about optimization, how to make large scenes on a weak computer, this [...]

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The 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final was a massive e-sports event that took place in the O2 Arena in London. It was played in front of 14,700 spectators, with 6.9 million peak viewers. See how Calvin Serrano created the VFX for this video in Blender! Full video Breakdown video

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BlenderManager is a lightweight, open-source tool designed to simplify the management of Blender projects. Built with Python, it helps users organize their project files and streamline workflows. It provides a clean interface for tracking your Blender projects and keeping everything structured, especially useful for larger projects. verlorengest writes: Made a Desktop App About Managing Blender [...]

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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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