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This Geometry Nodes Animation Will Hypnotize You (Free Download Included)
Higgsas shares an amazing looping 'soap bubble' animation on Blender Artists, shows the setup and shares the basic geometry nodes setup for it! The foundation for this animation was posted by them in February, and it includes the downloadable .blend file for the basic effect of this animation.
Create Infinite Variations With the New Trees Generator [$]
Trees is a new procedural trees generator system that allows to easily create various different trees suitable for your scenes.Marco writes: With the slide of a Seed parameter you get an infinite amount of variations of the same type of tree. Everything is built on Geometry Nodes and the generation of the tree is fast [...]
Blender Jobs for November 6, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [Game Industry] - Animation TD & Character TD @ Ubisoft Annecy For more jobs, look here.
Edit Unreal Engine MetaHumans in Blender with the Blender MetaHuman DNA add-on
MetaHuman is Epic Game's impressive face animator and editor for Unreal Engine. With this new add-on by Poly Hammer, you'll be able to edit these models inside Blender and send them back to UE for rendering. Poly Hammer writes: Get ready to fully customize your Metahumans in Blender! Our new addon allows you to import [...]
Complete Face Marker Removal - Free Mini Series
Justin from Blender Frenzy is giving away 5 lessons that'll help get your next VFX project with face footage started. In this free chapter, you will learn how to completely remove face markers from video footage. The lessons cover the whole process step-by-step in great detail, starting with traditional and basic workflows, then progressing to [...]
Music Video: ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT (but in LEGO)
Onew re-created part of the music video of APT by ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - in Lego! I really love this trend :) I made APT M/V Lego animation Cover with Jaejun Bang - a motion designer from Korea. I made all 3D scene! thanks for watching!! See the original here - what you think [...]
Essential Tips for Low Poly Scenes - Blender Tutorial
Grant Abbitt shares 6 great tips for low poly modelling to make your lowpoly & isometric style scenes look fantastic. 00:00 - start 00:10 - Reducing the complexity 05:21 - Tris & Ngons are OK 06:32 - Object Count 07:09 - Use Empties 09:34 - References 10:23 - Lighting References
Blender Jobs for November 5, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Modeler for FDM Printable Toy Design at StationForge Senior Environment Artist at SAS Studios For more jobs, look here.
Making of Dark Medieval Mill
SoCalledGoodArtist shares the creation process of this atmospheric scene.
Convey speed with stylized VFX using Blender and 2D
Pierrick PIcault explains some techniques used in anime videos that help exaggerate speed effects without adding a ton of work to your project. What you see is what matters. Discover how I convey speed in this stylized animation with an anime look using Blender, 3D and 2D VFX.
Behind the Scenes: Isometric Animation
Explore how Kate, a self-taught artist from Poland, uses various techniques to create a visually mesmerizing animation. INTRODUCTION Hello! My name is Kate, and I am a 3D visualiser living in Cracow, Poland. My journey with 3D started, as it did for many of you, thanks to videogames! I love games! One of the first [...]
Retopology with Quad Maker [$]
The Quad Maker Blender Extension is a set of very simple mesh operations designed to help 3D modelers quickly retopologize objects into clean, quad-based geometry. Inspired by Maya’s Quad Draw, Quad Maker offers Blender users a way to speed up their retopology workflow while maintaining flexibility within Blender’s existing toolset. If you have any questions [...]
Seattle Blender User Group Nov. 2nd
This came in hot: Blenderheads in Seattle are meeting today! (As is the Los Angeles community). Oscar Baechler writes: There's so many things to talk about this month at Seabug!!! Blender 4.3 has finally slapped geometry nodes on grease pencil, which makes for some insane animation possibilities. Plus, let's speedrun the highlights of the 2024 [...]
Blender Jobs for November 2, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Character Animator For more jobs, look here.
Every NEW EEVEE Feature in Blender 4.3 and How to Use Them
Join SouthernShotty as he walks us through all the exciting new Blender 4.3 EEVEE features! Blender 4.3 brings updates to EEVEE, its real-time render engine, making it more powerful and versatile than ever before. From improved lighting and shadow fidelity to enhanced material options and rendering capabilities, these updates are crucial for artists looking to [...]
Los Angeles Blender Meeting Sat Nov 2 Celebrating 4.3
Blender users in Los Angeles are gathering this weekend!futurehack writes: Los Angeles Blenderheads! Blender 4.3 is scheduled to be released in November and so it's time to meet your peers, make some friends, and enjoy the glory of our favorite software package. Come to our meeting to hear about what's new with Blender, and hear [...]
Nodevember 2024 is here!
It's that time of the year again to dive into procedural design and let your creativity go wild!As always, you can participating by taking one of the Nodevember prompts and publishing your work wherever you feel comfortable and add the #nodevember or tag. Like last year, there's one prompt per two days, and there's no [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2024-44
Enjoy our selection of the top art from the Blender Artists forum this week!
How to Create a 2D Character Modeling Sheet in Blender [$, promoted]
Bring your concept to life and get it ready for a 3D modeling with Grease Pencil with this new CG Cookie course. Before a concept can be realised in 3 dimensions, it must be redrawn in technical detail. In TURNAROUND, CG Cookie instructor Paul Caggegi will guide you through the steps necessary to produce a [...]
2D Drawing to 3D Mesh in Blender 4.3 | Grease Pencil & Geometry Nodes Tutorial + Free Project File
Kevandram gives a super quick overview of some new GP features in Blender 4.3, and shows how to use them! Hey everyone! In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to convert 2D grease pencil strokes into 3D meshes in Blender 4.3 using Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes. I’ll walk you through the process [...]
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