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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: 150 euros to modify/improve one add-on 3D Environment Modeling Artist SR Environment Artist Lead Animator (Stylized Games | Unity3D) / Remote Senior Technical Animator (Rigging & Unity3D Character Systems) Technical Artist / Character Rigger for Modular Browser MMORPG (Blender + […]

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Check out the interesting high-performance vegetation modeling toolset for games and VFX. Now available for commercial use.

If you’ve ever worked on a complex Blender scene, you probably know the feeling: everything looks great in the viewport, but once you start rendering, things slow down dramatically. High-resolution textures, detailed lighting, and physics simulations can quickly push your machine to its limits. Even with a decent setup, rendering a full animation locally can […]

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AI-assisted animation tool gets new Root Motion system to automatically generate animation between key poses, plus new UE5 live link.

Digital Design Days turns 10 this May. And the opening titles say everything about this moment in our industry. The Chase, created by London-based Fluent Studio, is built around a single question: how do we face the future of creativity in the age of AI? The answer depends entirely on where you are standing.

Autodesk buys core tech and IP of the AI mocap pioneer. The Radical website will shut down on 6 July, so download your data before then.

Working effectively with different types of materials requires insight into why they work a certain way. In this free course, Richard Yot explains the theory of material properties and helps you effectively apply them in your projects. Take the guesswork out of shading metal Metals have unique properties that set them apart from other materials, […]

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Build the low-poly 3D dungeon of your dreams with game art firm Tidal Flask Studios' FBX asset pack. Free for commercial use, but get in quick.

Smoke, fire and liquid simulator for 3ds Max and Maya is now end-of-support, and will receive no further compatibility updates or fixes.

Ucupaint is a Blender addon to manage texture layers for the Eevee and Cycles renderers. Already in development for years, Ucupaint provides a lot of easy-to-use features while also being able to fit into your usual shader nodes workflow. Follow Ryan King along as he explains this add-on step by step.

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Google Summer of Code Blender received 90 applications. 41 of them meet the formal requirements (at least one pull request submitted). Proposals will be checked and evaluated now. The picked projects will be announced on April 31st. Modules & Projects Discussion: Style guide for constant […]

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The US version of BCON is happening next week (April 13-14) and the line-up is now complete. BCON Austin has an impressive lineup of speakers and covers a wide variety of topics. What stood out to me was several talks on the use of AI (and it’s impact) on the artists community, and the talks […]

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'Most feature-rich' update to the open-source rigging framework adds tools for automating Set Driven Key setup and blendshape transfer.

I’m partial to a bit of fluid simulation :) Check out this video by Jeremy White! For this project, I created a detailed hippo fluid scene using HydroFX, pushing the simulation to around 100 million particles. What makes this especially impressive is that the foam, bubbles, and spray were all simulated together within the same […]

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