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Check out the new features in the digital painting software for comics, illustrations and concept art, including the new Puppet Warp.

A dedicated team of volunteers is working hard to translate the Blender Manual into Dutch. With 10% of the manual already translated, they currently rank eleventh among all translations. Can you help? They have left the Italian translation far behind, but there is still work to be done to catch up with the Portuguese team, [...]

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Asset baking and export add-on can now bake PBR textures from any Blender shader set-up, not just the Principled BSDF shader.

An animated short film by Duncan Rudd about unfettered greed and its consequences. It's OK being the tallest tree in the forest. But, when the wind blows, how solid is the ground you're standing on?

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Discover how to create a King Kong-style creature fight sequence with The Gnomon Workshop's new five-hour Maya masterclass.

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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Blender Artist Needed For An Animation Project Seeking Advanced Retopologizer (Clothing & more) Model, no materials no lighting, based on Preiser model figure Netflix | Senior 3d Artist Seeking a Shader and Geometry Nodes Expert 3d animator Seeking: Rigging, Caging [...]

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AI-based service for VFX and animation gets rebranded as part of Autodesk's Flow cloud platform. Check out its latest features.

Bonsai v0.8.1 has been released! Bonsai is an add-on for Blender that provides native IFC and OpenBIM authoring for architects, engineers, and construction professionals. Highlights include: Twice as fast geometry processing with support for hybrid CGAL / OpenCASCADE geometry kernels Improved modeling tool for walls, slabs, doors and more, with snapping, axis alignment, angle snaps, [...]

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Check out the new features in the Unreal Engine 5 world building tool, including Runtime Virtual Texturing and an Advanced Water Shader.

You can download the set of 1,200+ meshes of buildings and props free from Epic Games' Fab marketplace - but you'll need to be quick about it.

New free plugin based on veteran standalone app MakeHuman creates custom 3D characters, complete with skin and clothing.

A small delegation of the Blender team are going to attend the Game Developers Conference.

Here's a quick tutorial on the steps to create an simple mysterious environment.mo Aidy Burrows writes: KISS 😗 Keep It Simple Stupid, or Keep It Stupid Simple if you prefer, a good Blender exercise for reducing distraction and endless iteration is to just keep it simple. Take a simple blockout object and have fun with [...]

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Animator Tal Minks' promising Maya plugin extracts hand animation from a standard webcam and bakes it to any five-fingered Maya character.

Dive into this article as Denis Rakarić breaks down his journey of modeling a detailed Type VIIc submarine. From historical accuracy to procedural texturing, he shares the challenges, techniques, and lessons learned along the way. INTRODUCTION Hi! My name is Denis, and I’m a hard surface artist from Croatia, currently working at Gamepires as an [...]

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LuckyChris shows how to rig a mechanical object. His tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to rigging and animating a tow truck in Blender, focusing on bone creation, constraints, and animation techniques.

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Master professional asset development workflows for VFX with The Gnomon Workshop's advanced-level tutorial.

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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