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A team of 11 Blender artists collaborated on their entry for the Dota 2 Short Film Contest. Their entry has the typical feel of a highly polished AAA game cinematic. I asked Israel Soteldo to share more about its creation process. Icy Silence is a short film by TimeWarp Animation, created for the Dota 2 [...]

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Othiniel Chigunwi takes a deep dive into YouTube and delivers a neatly categorized overview of the main Blender channels out there. Hi , So I recently published a video called “Every Blender YouTube Channel Explained in Under 30 Minutes” on my channel cgfocus. In this video, I go through many of the most popular Blender [...]

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Kaizen zips through a bunch of useful tips for Blender from fixing geometry with Grid Fill to using Blender 4.5’s Vulkan backend for better performance!

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Every smartphone, laptop, car, and AI server relies on microchips built with tens of billions of transistors—each just a few dozen atoms wide. But how do we actually manufacture something so small at scale? Meet the EUV Photolithography System, a $200M “microchip printer” that: Use lasers more powerful than steel-cutting lasers to blast tin droplets [...]

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This tutorial by DemNikoArt covers the entire rigging process, including setting up bones, adding constraints, and creating a clean, animator-friendly rig. Perfect for anyone looking to add complex mechanical animations to their projects.

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Wacom has become a top-tier supporter for Blender with a new partnership focusing on the improving the Blender experience across all pen/touch based devices. Blender Foundation is delighted to announce that Wacom, the pioneer of digital pen and tablet technology, announced an expanded its strategic partnership with Blender, the world’s leading open-source 3D creation suite. [...]

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Duncan and Vanessa Rudd run the British 3DR Studio (check out their work!). They shared this lovely short video where the Earth shares its story. An animated film showing how Earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us.

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In this tutorial by Blender Made Easy, Stephen Pearson demonstrates how to create a satisfying rigid body popping effect in Blender. You’ll learn to manipulate rigid body physics, animate object visibility, and use force fields to control movement.

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Dive into creating Manga-style NPR rendering with this super extensive and free tutorial series by Harry Helps. Hello Everyone! In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll create a subtle looping animation of a manga style environment in Blender! We'll be using a panel from the manga "BLAME!" as our reference! We'll start with a ready-made starter file [...]

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Behavioural Palaeontologist Tony's plan to take down the hunters begins. He has lured the buck tyrannosaur to their base camp, and now he must find a way to release all the captive dinosaurs, as well as find out what happened to the doe rex.

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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: B3AR Creative | Contract Unity 3D Artist - Remote Aviary Productions | Prop Artist Maya to Blender Look Dev Conversion - On-going Engagement Advanced Game Artist Creston Games | Lead 3D Artist 3D Redner & Animations Join Bespoke Pixel – [...]

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J Hill interviews Juan Hernández about his amazing experiment with the videogame character Stitch  from Lilo & Stitch.

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Noggi took on the task to recreate an 'impossible' shot from One Piece. He shows all the steps which include tedious shape key creation, setting up lighting for individual elements and of course Grease Penci animation!

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Blender 4.5 introduces a major update to the grid fill tool, which now handles complex geometries more effectively and produces cleaner results.

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Modules & Projects 2025-08-12 Blender Admins Meeting 2025-08-12 User Interface Meeting 2025-08-13 Grease Pencil Rendering Meeting 2025-08-14 Core Module Meeting 2025-08-14 Pipeline & I/O Module Meeting 2025-08-15 Project Updates meeting 2025-08-18 Viewport & EEVEE Module meeting New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes [...]

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Yibing Jiang shared this lovely short concept video with a neat manga-like shader. Hey friends, I’d love to share my new project with you! In my earlier posts, the characters were usually static, but this time—with the help of Blender, iClone, and Cascadeur—I was able to quickly add simple animations. Even though there’s still a [...]

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Blender might not be CAD, but with the right workflow, it can become a powerful tool for precision design — even for real-world woodworking projects. In CRAFTSMAN, CG Cookie instructor and professional carpenter Sascha Feider reveals his complete process for planning, modeling, texturing, and presenting a custom built-in from scratch. You’ll learn how to set [...]

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A new official project is working on bringing the power of Blender to tablet devices, starting with the iPad. The project is a combination of a dedicated development branch and a new 'application template' to account for mobile workflows. Dalai reports: The idea is to bring the full power of Blender to these devices. This [...]

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Smeaf takes a closer look at Blender 4.5 and highlights how this release reshapes everyday workflows. He focuses on the following main changes: Manifold Boolean Solver: The new solver delivers buttery-smooth, real-time boolean operations, eliminating the glitches and performance bottlenecks of the past. This is a game-changer for modeling, sculpting, and animation workflows, especially for [...]

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