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Promising lightweight add-on for creating 3D crowds for animation or visualization now lets you paint crowd characters into the scene.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Word reflection is blurry Needed: shader artist familliar with parallax/depth occlusion effects Senior Technical Artist at Rivian and VW Group Technology, LLC Product Shots Look development - Lighting & Rendering Artist For more jobs, look here.

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Dorian from bd3d shares an update to his flexible scattering add-on! Hello Blender Nation! 👋 We’re thrilled to announce the release of Geo-Scatter 5.5! Packed with exciting new features, enhancements, and tools, this update is here to redefine your scattering workflows and take your projects to the next level. 🚀 What’s New in Geo-Scatter 5.5? [...]

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Free tools help artists and studios set up collaborative USD-based workflows without the need for a custom production pipeline.

Polyhaven shares an amazing library of HDRis, Textures and 3D Models - all for free under a CC0 license. For their latest project, Namaqualand they traveled to the desert for a week to capture as many assets and environments as they could. See how they did it in this video! In September 2023, the Poly [...]

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Update to the image editing and digital painting app makes it possible to edit color gradients from the contextual task bar.

The latest release of Bproduction's Population crowd simulator for Blender adds finer control over motion paths using pinch/deflate, look target control, new painting and group options and more! What's New in Population V2 ? Paint your crowd: Thanks to the new mode, you can paint your crowd directly in the 3D viewport. Bidirectional Crowd: Characters [...]

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

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Architectural renderer gets new live link to Chaos Vantage, better volumetric caustics, and new AI-based render upscaling system.

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 4.3!

Now available: read our pick of the new features in the open-source 3D software, from Grease Pencil 3 to updates to Eevee and Cycles.

Enjoy the seventh episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, we follow the process around Blender's showcase named Project Gold, by the Blender Studio. The editor and director –documentary maker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lead 3D Character Artist - F/M/NB at NOVAQUARK Creative Technical Lead at OceanX 3D Blender Artist at tobspr Games For more jobs, look here.

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Learn how to scatter grass assets and animate them with Kenan Proffitt.

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Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.

Newly rebranded plugin transfers 3D characters, shaders, rigs and animation from Character Creator and iClone to Blender.

The Blender Foundation announces its fundraising campaign for 2024.

Fibonacci sequences and patterns are everywhere in nature, and they can create fascinatingly complex images. Richard van der Oost shows how to generate them with Blender. Today we're making Fibonacci patterns in Geometry Nodes. (using the Golden Ratio) This is what we're aiming for: It's a pattern that emerges in nature quite often. The most [...]

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With the rise of AI motion capture tools, should you still invest into hardware motion capture setups? Jamie Dunbar compares several solutions to let us know. Over the last few years AI motion capture tools have became the rage. In this video I put the most popular AI tools to the test and compare them [...]

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