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Dutch lottery brand Staatsloterij returns with its annual New Year’s campaign, this year titled “Give each other some luck," produced in collaboration with British animation studio Blinkink.

Neat new add-on displays the effect of individual shapes as real-time heatmaps, helping troubleshoot complex facial and full-body rigs.

Tool for auto-fitting 3D clothing to 3D characters gets new plugins for round-tripping assets to Unity and Unreal. Supports MetaHumans.

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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Take your character animation to the next level with Disney animator Alissar Kobeissi's masterclass for The Gnomon Workshop.

George R.R. Martin is stepping away from the Iron Throne to champion the 'weird-ass' imagination of his late friend, Howard Waldrop. Through a series of short films, including the dodo-bird mystery The Ugly Chickens, the indigenous post-apocalyptic Mary Margaret Road-Grader, and the Martian-invasion western Night of the Cooters, Martin is translating Waldrop’s idiosyncratic prose into a visual language that refuses to compromise.

New tools, collaboration, and broader platform support.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Help needed, 3d generalist, animators, environment design, starting at north of 800$ a model 3D Environment Artist Senior 3D Artist (Generalist/Environment) [Hiring] Blender Artist: Aircraft Refinement for CAD/Catia ($200) Freelance 3D Archviz Artist [Hiring] 3d artist for support: Stylized Characters [...]

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Long-awaited update will let you denoise animation properly with the CPU/GPU denoiser, used in apps like Blender and V-Ray.

Generate growth animations for forms from corals to crystals with motion designer Gio Gargiulo's neat Houdini toolset, now free in beta.

Open-source rigging and animation framework gets a new blueprint system - and a Softimage-inspired alternative to Maya's Outliner.

Check out the new features in the terrain-generation software for games and VFX, including better support for tablets and pen displays.