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The yearly, most restrictive Blender Artists forum challenge is back! Let the insane restriction of using only 10 cubes (or rather, cuboids) inspire you! 16 Years ago, Sterling wrote: It seems that blender is losing more and more of its limitations, but sometimes having limitations can push creativity. so let’s take it back a step [...]

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Ian Latarte shows how to make chromatic abberation in your Blender scenes match the footage for your VFX projects. Chromatic aberration is one of those weird lens artifacts that happen in real life, but need to be specifically addressed when compositing CG elements into your footage. blockquote>

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True-VFX just announced True-Terrain 5, the ultimate all-in-one terrain creation toolkit for Blender. Whether you’re creating sprawling landscapes, realistic vegetation, or stunning water features, True-Terrain 5 is packed with features and assets to make your creative vision a reality. Key Features: Over 200 Assets: Bring your environments to life with a massive library of scatter [...]

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Learn to re-create the adorable and enigmatic soot sprites from Spirited Away in Blender. Pixxo 3D explains the entire process in this three-part video tutorial.

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There's a buzz in the Blender community about the new Lens Sim add-on by Håvard Dalen. By simulating the individual elements in a lens using path tracing and the new Ray Portal BSDF node, it generates images with uncanny realism. In addition to providing over 40 pre-set existing lenses, it adds an interactive lens editor [...]

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Eric Klein announces New exciting new features for K-Cycles 2025 - 4.3. v! We also introduced the following new features: Performance Update - New faster core for K-Cycles no supports for Nvidia, AMD and Mac. Major update to the Ultra Denoiser now working with GPU Multi-Pass. Huge speed up with new GPU denoising for multi-pass [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lead Character Artist at BOHEMIA INTERACTIVE a.s. 3D Artist for Architectural AR/VR (Remote Work - Brazilian Company) For more jobs, look here.

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Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including a ragdoll physics system, and a live link to Unreal Engine.

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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Head into Cristine’s art process as she uses simple steps to illustrate a whimsical graveyard scene with clever modeling. INTRODUCTION Hi there! My name is Cristine Tellier and I live in São Paulo, Brazil. Until December, last year, I worked as an IT architecture coordinator at a retail business, doing some freelance 3D jobs during [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Rigger For more jobs, look here.

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Ryan King Art writes: In this Blender tutorial we will create these three procedural snow materials. https://youtu.be/2iRkv_1okqY?si=PPZhDMF4TLriCVRV

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UVPackmaster 3.3.0 adds a considerable performance boost, and more. Glukoz reports on the changes. Dear Blender community, I am happy to announce a new UVPackmaster 3 release: 3.3.0: Support for the Vulkan API to accelerate packing on AMD Radeon GPUs. Significant performance optimizations for processing heavy UV maps on Linux. Support for Blender 4.3. Option [...]

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Discover how to create more believable character animation with The Gnomon Workshop's new intermediate-level Maya tutorial.

Explore how Galazi, a self-taught artist from Taiwan, brought the enchanting Nightfall Castle to life, blending custom assets, clever lighting, and creative techniques. INTRODUCTION Hello everyone! I'm Galazi, a self-taught artist from Taiwan. My first area of study was film editing, and then I began delving into 3D. I started learning 3D from CG Fast [...]

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A spectacular video of a pirate ship in a bay by BlindIllusionist, with a quick scene breakdown. I created this pirate bay in Blender and simulated the waves crashing into the bay with Flip Fluids. The ship I made myself a while ago and it took me several approaches to get the waves coming in [...]

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Here's a nice watch: Blender's history in 8 minutes! I really enjoyed this. In the latest XR Motion YouTube upload, Michael Steinberg dives in and explores the remarkable journey of Blender, a free and powerful 3D creation tool that has revolutionized the industry. From its inception in a small Dutch studio to becoming a global [...]

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