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Master character effects workflows for animation, cinematics and VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's detailed Houdini tutorial.

Promising open-source add-on lets you scatter plants and rocks in your scenes according to elevation, texture masks or guide curves.

Create advanced scattering systems in Blender with OpenScatter, a completely free and open-source addon. Creating advanced scattering systems in Blender typically requires spending countless hours building a custom geometry nodes setup. Most environment artists don’t have time for that. OpenScatter features an intuitive UI panel that allows you to quickly set up scatter systems. You [...]

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Reggie Perry re-created an illustration in Blender and turned it into an animation. In this video he shares the creation process. I recently connected with illustrator and toy designer Hippy Potter and he has this really cool plush toy. He posted a video of it in 2D form and I wanted to try my hand [...]

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Seattle Blender User Group's in-person meeting is this Saturday! When: Saturday, March 1st, 10 AM to 1 PM Where: Academy of Interactive Entertainment, 305 Harrison St #405 · Seattle, WA What: Gory monsters! Hand painted texturing! 3D for concept art! Modifier stacks! After years of deep diving on Geometry Nodes, the goal for this Seabug [...]

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Check out the new time-tracking tools in the cloud-based production management platform for VFX. Free for six months to startup studios.

Discover the creative journey behind Myrrai, a unique character blending mythology, nature, and personal inspiration, as Clark brings her to life through a mix of hand-painted and semi-realistic art styles. INTRODUCTION Hi, my name is Marcus Clark, and I am a 3D artist and filmmaker from Baltimore, Maryland. My introduction to Blender came from taking [...]

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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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In this video, ‪Martin Klekner‬ breaks down how to quickly create simple cinematic scenes to practice your CG filmmaking skills in Blender. This scene is part of his upcoming CGBoost course Master Cinematic Storytelling in Blender. Waiting List.

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Yuval Dubowski & Gilad Harnik present their graduation film for the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Screen Based Arts Department 2024 - a beautifully scripted and designed reflection on a life. A short animated story about dealing with regret, responsibility and finding a sliver of light in the darkest of shadows. Herold wakes up [...]

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Next major update to Nuke introduces native multishot compositing, and improves roto performance and BlinkScript editing.

3D tracking and match-moving software gets new multi-export system, AI-based roto masking, and 3D head mesh for head tracking.

Image-editing and retouching app is now available on iPhone as well as iPad, with an Android version coming soon. Read our FAQs here.

Check out the changes to the intuitive NURBS modeler, including a revamped interface, and a new Section Analysis command.

Tired of using Blender's old cell fracture add-on? In this video Kenan Proffitt shows you how to make your own procedural fracture tool in blender using Geometry Nodes.

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"Just add fog" is a go-to rule when an image is lacking visual depth. In this tutorial Lino Thomas shows how to can use uniform and non uniform volumes to add a layer of fog as well as a nice distance based haze. I am sure this will be useful in some of your scenes [...]

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Financial problems of the owner of Mikros Animation and VFX Oscar-winners MPC and The Mill threaten thousands of artists' jobs worldwide.

Ryan King Art shows how to create these ice cream drumsticks in Blender.

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