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The Hunters - Part 4
Ali Awada continues his saga of Jurassic Park fan videos. Behavioural Paleontologist Tony's curiousity about the buck tyrannosaur's uncharacteristic behaviour has lead him to follow the dinosaur through the jungle towards the hunters' base camp. From his vantage point, Tony listens to the tyrannosaur’s calls. He is fascinated, but then the faintest of breaths catches [...]
Procedural Stylized Sand Material
In this Blender tutorial we will create this Procedural Stylized Sand Material.
Get free Maya character rigging toolset mGear 5.1
Update to the open-source Maya rigging and animation framework resolves compatibility issues with popular blendshape editor Shapes.
Announcing “Impulse Purchase” Animated Video
Blender Studio partners with outstanding talent to bring OK Go's “Impulse Purchase” track to life in a spectacular new visual.
Ephere releases Ornatrix 3ds Max 9
Check out the changes to the 3ds Max hair plugin for games and VFX, including a new Warp Roots modifier to help groom feathers.
Ephere releases Ornatrix Maya 5
Check out the changes to the Maya plugin for creating hair and fur for games and VFX, including fast new workflows for braiding hair.
Short Video: The Fly
Ivo van de Grift revisits his mechanical contraptions with this miniature wing-flapping machine. It doesn't do too well. About two weeks ago I started a new Blender Pet Project; ‘The Fly’. I wanted to create a robot-like fly with lots of moving parts. My goal was to have a single control point for the wing [...]
Headphones Product Animation Tutorial
Let’s model, light and animate a detailed headphones product shot in Blender with Polygon Runway.
Behind the Scenes: Dota 2 ICY SILENCE Cinematic
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 [...]
Every Blender YouTube Channel Explained in Under 30 Minutes
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 [...]
34 Blender Timesavers in 12 Minutes!
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!
Video: Inside the Most Advanced Machine Ever Built
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 [...]
Learn How to Rig an Aircraft Landing Gear
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.
Wacom joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron
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. [...]
Video: The Ballad of Pale Blue Dot
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.
Creating a Satisfying Rigid Body Popping Effect in Blender
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.
Tutorial: Creating Sci-Fi Electrical FX in Houdini
Master efficient workflows for creating professional visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level Houdini tutorial.
3D Gaussian Splats are being added to the glTF standard
New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.
The Best Way To Create Nature In 3D
Free add-on turns MetaHumans into rigged Houdini characters
Turn any MetaHuman exported from Unreal Engine into a ready-to-animate character with the updated Metahuman for Houdini add-on.