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Tutorial: Mastering Body Mechanics in Maya
Discover a production-proven, time-saving character animation workflow with The Gnomon Workshop's new Maya masterclass.
Puppeteer Overlap for Maya adds secondary motion to animations
Streamlined new tool automatically adds overlap and follow-through to increase the realism of character and creature animation.
Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2025
Digital painting and image-editing software gets a new LIquidFX tool for image deformation, and better greenscreen and object removal.
How we made Animator vs. Animation in 3D (feat: Alan Becker)
Bone Widget v2.1 adds Preview Images, Custom libraries and more
Bone Widget is a Blender add-on to assist with making custom bone shapes. It has an editable library of shapes that make it easy to apply to any rig. It ships with many shapes pre-made but you can also add your own to the library to make rigging easier. Wayne Dixon writes: Hello riggers, There [...]
3D-Info is a lightweight open-source viewer for USD scenes
French movie trade organization CST's free tool offers an intuitive way to explore USD scenes. Now plays back animations in USD scenes, too.
Blender Jobs for September 7, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Crystal Dynamics | Senior Franchise Artist For more jobs, look here.
Reallusion releases iClone 8.5 and Character Creator 8.5
iClone update extends the real-time animation tool's crowd simulations with smart props and accessories. See all the new features here.
Out now! Blender to Resolve Freemium Course
Gleb Alexandrov presents the latest Creative Shrimp course on color management and grading in DaVinci Resolve, specifically for 3D artists using Blender. It's a 'pay what you want' model, so you can get it for as little or as much as you think is fair. The course covers topics like EXR rendering pipeline, using industry-standard [...]
Kitbash using Shapers and KIT OPS 3 in Blender
Blender Jobs for September 6, 2024
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: BLOXNEO | Concept Artist (Founding Team) Paid - Animation Reel [Paid]- proof of concept work For more jobs, look here.
OpenFX 1.5 has been released
First update to the open standard for VFX plugins in almost a decade improves color management, and widens CPU and GPU support.
Best of Blender Artists: 2024-36
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.
Title: Time-lapse: Plasticity Sketch: Portable Stove
In this time-lapse video, 3D artist Rachel Frick showcases the process behind her latest creation: a sleek, utilitarian portable stove. The design is reminiscent of something you'd take on a rugged camping trip or that could see use in military settings. About the Artist Rachel is a talented hardsurface artist known best for her cute [...]
3DCoat Low-Poly Modeling for Beginners #16. Creating a simple object - Sci-Fi Prop. Part 5.
Foundry releases Flix 7.1
Heavyweight story development tool with integrations to Photoshop and Maya can now also be used in a standard web browser.
Seabug: Seattle, September 7th: Blender, Godot, Material Maker!
Blender users in Seattle are meeting this Saturday morning! When: Saturday, September 7th, 10 AM to 1 PM Where: Academy of Interactive Entertainment, 305 Harrison St #405 · Seattle, WA What: It's a FOSS family reunion! We recently had a swell time working on a game jam, so this month we'll be looking at how to [...]
Plastic Software releases Plasticity 2024.2
Check out the new features in the intuitive NURBS modeler, including Deform and Mesh Snap features, and support for SVG import.
Behind the Scenes: Qinni
INTRODUCTION Hello, I am SecretHandshake, a 3D artist based in Korea. I mainly create 3D characters in my own unique style and share my work through Instagram, communicating with many people there. I am very happy to have this great opportunity to introduce myself. INSPIRATION The idea for this piece came from a beautiful illustration [...]