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In this geometry nodes tutorial, I’ll show you how to make a 🔥🔥BLAZING🔥🔥 text animation with Blender 5.0’s new volume nodes. Let's light it up!

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Michael Bridges breaks down Blender's asset importing system, showing you exactly when to use Link, Append, and Pack. I'll help you avoid the two most common asset nightmares: broken update propagation and accidental global overrides. Have you ever linked assets perfectly, made updates to the source file, but nothing changed in your scene? Or worse, [...]

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Michael Bridges walks you through the 10 essential factors for choosing the perfect GPU for your Blender workflow, from physical fit and VRAM needs to power requirements and future-proofing. By the end, you'll know exactly which GPU matches your budget and workflow without overspending. Have you ever wondered why your friend's cheaper GPU renders faster [...]

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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. This week's list is longer than usual as the yearly 10 Cubes Challenge is running, and I decided to keep those entries in as well.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Environment Artist Portfolio Review – Disabled 3D Animator (Indie Animated Series HEROES For more jobs, look here.

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Unlock full control over EEVEE’s indirect lighting! In this tutorial, Gleb Alexandrov reveals a simple yet powerful workaround to extract and control the intensity of ray traced bounced light in Blender’s EEVEE render engine – a control that doesn’t exist in the official settings.

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Happy holidays and a great start into the new year! The next Weekly Updates will be posted on January 5th, 2026 Modules & Projects 2025-12-08 Grease Pencil Module Meeting 2025-12-09 Render & Cycles Meeting 2025-12-09 Sequencer meeting 2025-12-09 Nodes & Physics Module Meeting 2025-12-09 Sculpt, [...]

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Luciano writes: I wanted to share with you guys this old old animation that a couple of weeks ago I decided to give a hand of polish in every aspect from animation, to rigging, to shading, lighting and comp, I picked it up with blender 5.0.1 did all that and rendered it in eevee. The [...]

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In this Blender beginner sculpting tutorial, Ryan King will teach you the basics of sculpting, while sculpting this cute creature character sculpt. Free project files on Gumroad

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Gleb Alexandrov writes: We’ve just released our new course! 🔥 EEVEE Realistic Lighting and Rendering. It’s for those who want to produce stunningly realistic lighting right up there with Cycles and other path-tracing engines in Blender 5.x – at a fraction of the render time.

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In a race against time to reach the first space cruiser, which has been hijacked, the crew of the patrol ship Argos are intercepted by a military unit with attack robots determined to eliminate them. With their skill and cleverness, the Argos crew will do all they can to shake off their pursuers and continue [...]

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Let’s cook up something festive in geometry nodes for the holidays! Learn how to make a seamless and procedural motion design loop. Enjoy!

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Procedural materials can be incredibly powerful—until they’re not. Michael Bridges dives into a common issue that comes up when applying procedural textures to curves and pipes, particularly when UV mapping starts to stretch and distort. If you've ever found your materials looking strange on longer or more complex shapes, you'll know exactly what I mean. [...]

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Another awesome marble race video by Alan Luk.

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When working between multiple 3D Software, you might have some compatibility issues with the Normal Map format, here's how to fix it.

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benjaminaubone writes: Hello dear BlenderNation family! I'm pleased to present "Mecha Cat Monster Hunter," an animated short film made entirely in Grease Pencil. Hugs!

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I love the epic scale of the scenes in Kaleab Aklilu's reel!

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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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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I need Build a low-poly 3D version of a section of map coordinates set in Blender 5.0 using rea 3D Character Artist — Animated AI Companion Dog I need a model of a wristwatch that would also fit on a [...]

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Blender 5 introduces some features that users of Adobe Illustrator will love: a Pen tool and the ability to add sharp corners to bezier curves drawn with that tool. In this video, we go over some Grease Pencil Basics, and how to use these new tools. I answer some questions like: why is my Grease [...]

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