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Ivo van de Grift revisits his mechanical contraptions with this miniature wing-flapping machine. It doesn't do too well. About two weeks ago I started a new Blender Pet Project; ‘The Fly’. I wanted to create a robot-like fly with lots of moving parts. My goal was to have a single control point for the wing [...]

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Let’s model, light and animate a detailed headphones product shot in Blender with Polygon Runway.

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A team of 11 Blender artists collaborated on their entry for the Dota 2 Short Film Contest. Their entry has the typical feel of a highly polished AAA game cinematic. I asked Israel Soteldo to share more about its creation process. Icy Silence is a short film by TimeWarp Animation, created for the Dota 2 [...]

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Othiniel Chigunwi takes a deep dive into YouTube and delivers a neatly categorized overview of the main Blender channels out there. Hi , So I recently published a video called “Every Blender YouTube Channel Explained in Under 30 Minutes” on my channel cgfocus. In this video, I go through many of the most popular Blender [...]

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Kaizen zips through a bunch of useful tips for Blender from fixing geometry with Grid Fill to using Blender 4.5’s Vulkan backend for better performance!

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Every smartphone, laptop, car, and AI server relies on microchips built with tens of billions of transistors—each just a few dozen atoms wide. But how do we actually manufacture something so small at scale? Meet the EUV Photolithography System, a $200M “microchip printer” that: Use lasers more powerful than steel-cutting lasers to blast tin droplets [...]

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This tutorial by DemNikoArt covers the entire rigging process, including setting up bones, adding constraints, and creating a clean, animator-friendly rig. Perfect for anyone looking to add complex mechanical animations to their projects.

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Wacom has become a top-tier supporter for Blender with a new partnership focusing on the improving the Blender experience across all pen/touch based devices. Blender Foundation is delighted to announce that Wacom, the pioneer of digital pen and tablet technology, announced an expanded its strategic partnership with Blender, the world’s leading open-source 3D creation suite. [...]

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Duncan and Vanessa Rudd run the British 3DR Studio (check out their work!). They shared this lovely short video where the Earth shares its story. An animated film showing how Earth was formed, its mis-spent youth, its adventures in parenting and its feelings towards us.

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In this tutorial by Blender Made Easy, Stephen Pearson demonstrates how to create a satisfying rigid body popping effect in Blender. You’ll learn to manipulate rigid body physics, animate object visibility, and use force fields to control movement.

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Master efficient workflows for creating professional visual effects with The Gnomon Workshop's intermediate-level Houdini tutorial.

New collaboration between Khronos Group and the Open Geospatial Consortium paves the way towards support for 3DGS data in glTF files.

Turn any MetaHuman exported from Unreal Engine into a ready-to-animate character with the updated Metahuman for Houdini add-on.

Check out the new features in the animation software, including support for Character Creator 5, and new export presets for UE5.

Check out the new features in this major update to the 3D character creation app, from the new HD base characters to the new Maya plugin.

Read our pick of the changes in Houdini 21, from Copernicus and KineFX to new AI workflows - then see a list of all 300+ new features.