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Discover how the VFX studio used procedural growth simulation to create the environment for Amazon Prime Video's supernatural thriller.

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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Photoshop plugin and standalone app for applying cinematic looks to still images gets AI mask generation, Looks and new Particle Brushes.

Destruction plugin for games and VFX gets a new Edge Fracture Tool, and improvements to clustering and simulation performance.

Substance 3D Texturing and Substance 3D Collection plans now include unlimited access to 19,000+ materials, 3D models and HDRIs.

Check out the new features in the image-editing app, with the Frame Tool getting new shape options and generative AI integration.

Update to Epic Games' free app provides more control over scans, with the option to create 1-million-poly models with 8K textures.

Handy free Blender add-on displays an estimated time and progress bar for entire animations being rendered, not just individual frames.

Users in Seattle are meeting again for a Saturday morning filled with Blender. When: Saturday, February 1st, 10 AM to 1 PM Where: Academy of Interactive Entertainment, 305 Harrison St #405 · Seattle, WA What: This Saturday, join your fellow Blender artists for a morning of 3D demos, shenanigans, philosophizing, and solutions! We'll look at [...]

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Spitfire Storyboards gives an exceptionally in-depth review of the Storyliner add-on. This is a features overview of the addon Storyliner for blender. It is a powerful tool for storyboard, animatics, previs, shot creation, exporting shots, retiming scenes. Really robust addon and I highly recommend it.

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Check out the new features in the renderer, including a new Houdini-specific volume shader and better integration with Solaris.

Check out the new features in the VFX renderer, including OpenPBR support and changes to USD support specific to the Maya edition.

Design massive Cities in Blender with cutting-edge geometry nodes procedural tools. This pack has a set of discrete tools, including 8 procedural buildings, 3 semi-procedural buildings, and over 150 street-level props designed to create an American-like City.

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Maya animation toolkit for VFX and games gets new tools developed for Red9's character rigging work on the latest Sonic movie.

In this six part tutorial series Ryan King creates this studio microphone product visualization animation in Blender.

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Louis du Mont created a four-wall projection video in Blender, and takes us through the creation process. Immersive Gamebox is an in-person games and experience company who are starting to develop more and more joint IP projects, including Tetris! Like previous games, we were brought on for the animated cut scenes. https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/113/851/091/039/414/281/original/cf821678d11cbc38.mp4The animations are projected [...]

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The EmberGen dev's new app will be a 'better way to create the majority of assets' for VFX in games. Here's what we know about it so far.

Next major update to the real-time smoke and fire simulator to feature sparse sims, simulation retiming, USD support and a macOS edition.

BlenderKit's latest update offers an extensive library off add-ons at your fingertips. We are proud to announce that from now on all free & paid Blender add-ons will be available on BlenderKit. Discover Blender add-ons on BlenderKit. BlenderKit (pre-link: https://www.blenderkit.com/) offers an ever-growing asset library seamlessly integrated into Blender 3D. The community-driven database includes 3D [...]

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