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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Animating realistic faces is one of the hardest things to do in 3D animation. Thankfully we now have tools that allow you to record your face and apply those movements directly to your characters. Jamie Dunbar shows how. In this video I'll show you a completely free method to achieve this, as well as some [...]

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Kai describes how he achieved the gorgeous painting effect in his 'Bard' video. In this tutorial, I break down the process step by step—covering shader setup, textures, stylized shading techniques, and different line art approaches using Eevee, ensuring everything runs smoothly in real time within the viewport. This tutorial is a follow-up to my Bard [...]

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Blender 4.4 beta is out and brings a lot! One that everyone will enjoy are the performance improvements to Geometry Nodes, Baking and Denoising, but there's much more. Southern Shotty gives a full overview. The 4.4 release note that outline all the changes are available here. You can download 4.4 beta here.

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