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Ryan King shows how to use Light Gobos in Blender to create the illusion of a complex environment with lighting.

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Baeac shares a very straightforward method for rendering your Blender scenes as ASCII art. By calculating the brightness of squares and matching them with a predefined set of bitmaps, you get the nice eighties look. Enjoy!

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Gleb Alexandrov writes: You know how important composition is, right? Well, here’s a neat Blender trick to think about it in terms of light and shadow.

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Summer is the time to have fun—to go big or go home. Make the best of it with a 40% discount on BlenderKit Full Plan and Blender add-ons. Hurry up; our summer sale will end in one week, on July 31. Get Full Plan 40% OFF BlenderKit is an extensive 3D asset library seamlessly integrated [...]

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"MR-07" is a cinematic visualization of a futuristic world, entirely created in Blender, with Cycles as the main rendering engine. The core of the scene is a highly detailed sci-fi ship, fully modeled from scratch inside Blender using traditional polygonal modeling techniques. While the main structure of the ship was manually crafted, the scene also [...]

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Spencer Magnusson shares some beginning tips to make the most of your render with some color grading and simple effects in the compositor. Contents: 00:00 How this works + caveat 01:08 setting the scene 03:42 the compositor workspace 04:56 raw colorspace power 08:01 setting exposure 08:17 using Color Balance and Viewer nodes 10:08 fog 12:24 [...]

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dvicemuse writes: Hair physics in the new blender hair system is no longer available (because it's still in development). This video shows how to use the new system easily as a workaround. It implements both the old particle system and the new geometry node system, and teaches you how to switch between two different resolvers. [...]

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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: Environment Artist - Blender and Unreal Engine Closed Help Needed: Kirby 3D Model – Eye Animation for Unreal Engine 3D Generalist - Blender - Unreal Engine /!\ CANADA ONLY /!\: Hard Edge 3D Modeler for both real-time mobile VR and [...]

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Struggling to make your renders look cinematic? This free mini-course by Gleb Alexandrov will teach you how to take your raw render and turn it into a visually striking final image using pro color grading techniques in the Render Raw add-on.

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Check out this awesome fluid sim by BlindIllusionist! I wanted to achieve a simulation like this for a long time and it took me a while to figure it out. But I think I was able to achieve a good effect with Blender and Flip Fluids, trying to replicate this “Houdini-style” simulation of the ship [...]

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Blender 4.5 has landed and it's packed with new nodes, changes to existing nodes and a lot of other geometry node improvements. Harry comments: "This is a big one. I've never animated so many nodes in my life." And he's right! I'm impressed by the amount of motion video work that went into this one, [...]

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Okay, I don't tend to publish a lot of donut videos here as the Blenderverse is flooded with them, but this one by ToothKit is next level! In this video, I show you my donut journey in these days. From Day 1 to Day 1000, hope I make it worthly. The FREE donut file you [...]

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Let’s model and texture an optimized game-ready assets with a wild west theme in Blender!

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A fresh update of the most Blender-friendly Web 3D authoring tool is out. Here is what's new. support for new features of Blender 4.5 new Factory Tour demo featuring street view navigation and 360° panoramas native macOS Installer new puzzle "assign animation" to re-use animation on a different object upgraded "make object from" puzzle and [...]

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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. Note: I had some technical difficulties generating this one - I checked everything twice and hope it went well!

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Companion Group | 3D Character Artist Devoted Studios | 3D Art Director Creston Games | Lead Artist, Game Studio Senior World Environment Artist Precise Systems, Inc. | 3D Graphic Artist Lead Gamut Creative | Character Modeler Crossing Hurdles | Creative [...]

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Reggie Perry, Jr. and Most Incredible Studio created this work for the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. Here is some new animation work I created as part of a collaboration between Jimi Hendrix + MoPop + Most Incredible Studio. Huge thanks to Syreeta Gates of Most Incredible Studio for allowing me to animate their [...]

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John R. Nyquist writes: How do you run multiple instances of the SAME version of Blender on a Mac? It is a quick tip, in a nutshell just run this in the Terminal: open -n -a Blender

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Blender users in Nuremberg, Germany are getting together tonight! Gottfried Hofmann writes: NuremBUG, the Blender user group from Nuremberg, Germany meets up again on Monday, July 14th starting 7pm at Coworking Nürnberg (Josephspl. 8, 90403 Nürnberg). As always beginners are welcome.

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