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Check out the changes to the 3D animation app, including updates to LookdevX and new generative animation system MotionMaker.

Tomek Napierała shares a quick breakdown video of his NPR style 'Old Windmill scene. This scene is a continuation of my efforts to emulate a 2D look with 3D graphics. Despite a few flaws, I’m really happy with how this whole thing turned out. I learned a lot of new things and improved my skills [...]

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[Sponsored] Games artist Francis Lamoureux reveals how he uses Reallusion's Character Creator to convert sculpts to game characters.

Ali Awada writes: 270 million years ago, the Earth was a different place and the dominant predator of the Permian Period will surprise you.

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Read our list of 300+ new features due in the next version of Houdini - from Neural Point Surface for liquids to the Otis organic tissue solver.

Conform Object wraps objects onto another object surface in one action in Blender. The Conform Object add-on just received an experimental update in version 1.6 — introducing a modifier powered by Geometry Nodes for Blender 4.5 and above. This new modifier version of the tool brings key benefits: Faster performance on dense meshes Improved non-destructive [...]

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Big update adds over 30,000 new stock assets to the library available to Corona and V-Ray subscribers, including 3D plants and furniture.

If your checkerboard pattern ripples like jelly or your seams jump out louder than bloom lighting, the culprit is usually the UV map. 3D Tudor's new class helps you navigate these issues. I spent years chasing those issues myself, so I built a new class that tackles them head-on: UV Mapping Bootcamp – Master Unwrapping [...]

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2 monsters have a fight over some food that quickly goes off the rails. Joey Carlino writes: I made this with Blender in 57 hours for HellavisionTelevision and LooseFrames "Hell Fable" animation open call. The original cut that was submitted to Hellavision was done in 45 hours over the course of a week. It is [...]

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Big update to the natural media painting software adds new Bristle Brushes, environment lighting for thick paint, and better PSD support.

Yeho Studios shows how to create a realistic forest scene in Blender using free assets and tools. Whether you are a beginner 3D artist or someone struggling with nature scenes in Blender, this video is for you. Please note that the original process took about 6 hours to create, this tutorial compresses that process to [...]

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John R. Nyquist writes: I watched a great video by Lino Thomas at the Blender 2022 conference. Afterwards I felt like I had to explore further mirroring and bisecting (and flipping) to create complexity using the mirror modifier. Here’s my Bit: One hour of greeble - Live workshop at the Blender Conference 2022:

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