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How are Transistors Assembled Inside a CPU?
Mike Radjabov presents another in-depth explainer, created in Blender. Inside your smartphone, there are billions of transistors, but have you ever wondered how they actually work and how they can be combined to perform tasks like multiplying two numbers together? One rather interesting thing is that transistors are a lot like Lego Bricks assembled together [...]
Seamless Photo and PBR Texture Creation
Confused about the PBR workflow? Don't be. This step by step tutorial takes you through the process of creating your own seamless PBR photo textures. It starts with how to get quality material (the photos) and then goes through the seamless texture creation process. Colour, normal, roughness, metallic and displacement are all covered, using the [...]
Miniature Medieval Crowds in Action: 3D Prop Animation with Blender, iClone, and ActorCore [$, promoted]
Discover how Florian Salvesberger, a Vienna-based concept artist and 3D designer, brings medieval scenes to life using Blender, iClone, and ActorCore for seamless 3D prop animation. Hi, my name is Florian Salvesberger. I’m a concept artist, 3D designer, and visual artist based in Vienna, Austria. My focus is on developing concept artworks for characters, set [...]
Satisfying Loop Tutorial
Let's use the animation curves graph to quickly create a flashy loading animation in Blender.
ArchViz Reel: ZORE Studio
Gorgeous visuals in this reel by the Slovak-based Blender ZORE studio. Welcome to our collection of the most stunning archviz videos we've created up to 2025! Using Blender and the powerful Octane Engine, we bring architectural designs to life with realistic renderings and cinematic visuals. Our workflow combines Blender's versatility with Octane's breathtaking realism, allowing [...]
Sci-Fi Lunar Lander (Tutorial Series)
In this 5 part Blender tutorial series Ryan King creates this Sci-Fi Lunar Lander. https://youtu.be/IbOcR7UZp0U?si=4u2ayS96GX5tNStI
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-25
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.
Project Acheron - Spider-Verse inspired workflow
The Class Creatives team recently shared this detailed Behind the Scenes post on the Blender Artists forum. I thought it was an interesting enough read to republish it here. We have been working on project Acheron for a few years, and we wanted to share our progress and final renders with the community. Our goal was to [...]
Breakdown: Marina Apartments
Jonathan Josenhans from the German Architectural Visualization studio edelVIZ shares a quick buildup of one of their recent projects. I can finally show you one project we completed last year. This is acually our first video we ever did in blender - some things are a bit janky, but overall I am really happy about [...]
Blender Jobs for June 20, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Looking for someone to create some low poly cartoonish clothing asset for my character I'm looking for an artist to make me a Thumbnail for YouTube Vertpaint Studios | Concept Artist Stealth Startup | 3D Artist Intern Pizza Party Productions [...]
Free Edge Tracing Toolkit for OctaneRender and Blender
If you're using OctaneRender in Blender and need stylized outlines or toon-style edge tracing (but also toon-shading!), this free toolkit by Lino Grandi might be for you. Developed specifically for Octane, the addon offers a complete edge rendering workflow using Geometry Nodes and vertex groups. It includes a ready-to-go material, customizable thickness, and AOV/Compositor setups [...]
VFX breakdown: Netflix's The Snow sister
Enjoy seeing how the VFX in The Snow Sister were created. As always, the best VFX are the ones you can't spot!
Separate shaders in AI 3d generated models
Yoji shows how to prepare generated models for proper texturing in tools like Substance Painter.
The Hunters Part 3 - Horror short film
Behavioural Paleontologist, Tony, has been located. His surveillance system has alerted him to the presence of hunters on the island of Isla Sorna. Now he must deal with the immediate threat, as well as understand why the buck tyrannosaur has been behaving uncharacteristically. A short fan film by Ali Awada.
ZenShaders Library [$]
ZenShaders Library is a growing collection of materials, tools, textures, and brushes designed to speed up your workflow when texturing, drawing, or sculpting. This first update includes: 120 stylized materials, 50 decals, and 50 grunge textures for Blender and Substance Painter. Texture maps are also included in case you want to use them in other [...]
Poly Haven Vaults: New Libraries that Support the Project
Poly Haven presents their latest content drops in Vaults. These 'pay for early access' libraries are how the project funds their production. Once a vault reaches a target number of supporters, it will be released for free! Greg Zaal writes: We're proud to finally share with you several years' worth of work: The Vaults! The [...]
Short Video: Bee-yond the garden
Bharat Madhu created this short animation using the Lens Sim add-on and a bee model from VFX Grace.
Quick Tip: A Better Wet Shader
John Mervin probably made the shortest Blender tutorial ever ;-) You could just add a clearcoat...But why stop there? P.S. Please do not record tutorials while driving.
Blender Jobs for June 13, 2025
Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: A5 Labs | Sr. Unity 3D Generalist (Remote) Bode Software | Unreal Engine 3D Game Level Artist Bode Software | Unreal Engine 3D Game Environmental Artist Quick logo work Rocky Tales | Freelance 3D Animator (Part-Time, Contract) – Remote | [...]
Best of Blender Artists: 2025-24
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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