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Get free volumetric 3D clouds for previs, motion graphics and VFX in CG apps and game engines like Blender, Maya and Unreal Engine.

Subsurface Talks podcast's 10th guest is the legendary Jason van Gumster, author of Blender for Dummies and countless other Blender-related activities. As he describes himself - a member of the 'Blender old farts club'. Neither age nor impressive experience takes away any of Jason's contagious energy and enthusiasm. Whether it's writing crazy science fiction prose, [...]

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Texturing, UVs, Optimization and Exporting for Game Engines. 25% off till Monday 3rd March 2025. Modeling for a game is some of the most challenging type of modeling we can do. We can’t just throw subdivision modifiers onto our objects and expect that to run smoothly in game. So [...]

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Allan Brito has updated his book for beginning Blender users with a focus on CAD design. Early last year, I released a book about using Blender as a CAD tool. Initially written for Blender 4.0, the book became a huge success on Blender 3D Architect. After several months, I'm releasing a minor update that includes [...]

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Blender's Curve Deform Modifier is absolutely fine but it can be a little tricky to use, resulting in unexpected rotations, confusing transformations, and objects that don’t align as expected. Fit Curve is a Modifier asset that aims to make aligning objects to curves more simple and intuitive with less guesswork. If you have any questions, [...]

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Pietro Chiovaro created this 3D VFX animation in Blender, blending real footage of New York City with a 3D-animated Spider-Man. This project was a fun challenge, combining CGI and live-action to bring the web-slinger to life. Let me know your thoughts, and if you have any tips, drop them in the comments below! :D Software: [...]

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Video editing, compositing and VFX app and still image editor had over 6 million users prior to buyout and switch to subscription pricing.

In this video Spencer Magnusson looks at Blender optimization . He goes over visibility settings for objects and collections, and the WHY you would (and should) use all of them.

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VFX artist Rob Dickinson's handy add-on fixes artefacts in 3D scans and models in one click, to prepare them for animation or rendering.

BlindIllusionist shared this impressive short scene that he re-created in Blender from Jurassic World. After seeing the announcement for a new Jurassic World movie I rewatched the original Jurassic Park and wanted to see if I might be able to achieve something similar as the scene in the beginning, where the helicopter approaches Isla Nublar [...]

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Master workflows used in cinematics and animation production with The Gnomon Workshop's improvers' guide.

Explore how Chase McGill brings Minecraft’s blocky hero to life with unsettling hyper-realism, transforming Steve into a grotesquely detailed 3D masterpiece. INTRODUCTION Hello, my name is Chase McGill, and I am a 3D generalist based in New Jersey and Los Angeles. I love using Blender to create realistic characters—sometimes serious and sometimes goofy. My “serious” [...]

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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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Cost of Substance 3D Texturing, Collection and Teams subscriptions to rise from 9-25% in March 2025. Read our FAQs about the changes.

Check out the new features in the 3D capture software, including path tracing in the 3D View and support for HP's Z Captis scanner.

The February 2025 update for 'Node Charts: Info Graphs for Blender' has been released, here are the features. New Heatmap added: Heatmap added with support for up to a 10×10 grid, allowing up to 100 data points, bringing the total to 25 graphs.

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Chaos adds AI visualization and ideation app Veras to its product line. See what the buyout means for users of both firms' tools.

It's time to update your Blender LTS! Both the 4.2 and 3.6 branches have received some critical updates. The 'Long Term Support' versions offer stability for environments that require it, at the cost of not receiving any new features. Blender 4.2.7 LTS, supported until July 2026, received 18 fixes. Blender 3.6.21 LTS, supported until June [...]

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