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Polyhaven shares an amazing library of HDRis, Textures and 3D Models - all for free under a CC0 license. For their latest project, Namaqualand they traveled to the desert for a week to capture as many assets and environments as they could. See how they did it in this video! In September 2023, the Poly [...]

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The latest release of Bproduction's Population crowd simulator for Blender adds finer control over motion paths using pinch/deflate, look target control, new painting and group options and more! What's New in Population V2 ? Paint your crowd: Thanks to the new mode, you can paint your crowd directly in the 3D viewport. Bidirectional Crowd: Characters [...]

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Blender Pros Needed: Character Animators & Artists For more jobs, look here.

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Enjoy the seventh episode of Blenderheads, a series about the people behind the Blender project. In this episode, we follow the process around Blender's showcase named Project Gold, by the Blender Studio. The editor and director –documentary maker Maaike Kleverlaan– works embedded in the Blender headquarters to cover the activities and conduct interviews.

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Lead 3D Character Artist - F/M/NB at NOVAQUARK Creative Technical Lead at OceanX 3D Blender Artist at tobspr Games For more jobs, look here.

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Learn how to scatter grass assets and animate them with Kenan Proffitt.

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Fibonacci sequences and patterns are everywhere in nature, and they can create fascinatingly complex images. Richard van der Oost shows how to generate them with Blender. Today we're making Fibonacci patterns in Geometry Nodes. (using the Golden Ratio) This is what we're aiming for: It's a pattern that emerges in nature quite often. The most [...]

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With the rise of AI motion capture tools, should you still invest into hardware motion capture setups? Jamie Dunbar compares several solutions to let us know. Over the last few years AI motion capture tools have became the rage. In this video I put the most popular AI tools to the test and compare them [...]

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I recently got back into playing chess. This lesson by Bonjourchess covers a basic strategy, but it's a good one!

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [FULLY REMOTE!] Independent Render Wrangler Required For more jobs, look here.

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For a change, Slavoartist moves away from his usual complex scenes to focus on the beauty of simplicity. Minimalism. Honestly, I am a big fan of minimalistic art and photos. Despite the fact that I usually show some complex Blender scenes and talk about optimization, how to make large scenes on a weak computer, this [...]

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The 2024 League of Legends World Championship Final was a massive e-sports event that took place in the O2 Arena in London. It was played in front of 14,700 spectators, with 6.9 million peak viewers. See how Calvin Serrano created the VFX for this video in Blender! Full video Breakdown video

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BlenderManager is a lightweight, open-source tool designed to simplify the management of Blender projects. Built with Python, it helps users organize their project files and streamline workflows. It provides a clean interface for tracking your Blender projects and keeping everything structured, especially useful for larger projects. verlorengest writes: Made a Desktop App About Managing Blender [...]

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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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Let’s model and animate a 3D alert light beacon scene in Blender! https://youtu.be/UJ6YY4XjCzc

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: I am looking for someone who can support me in my work on various projects. €50,- ph For more jobs, look here.

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Discover the imagination of Andri Stefanus, an Indonesian self-taught artist, as he details the techniques of bringing a fantastic creature to life. INTRODUCTION Hi, my name is Andri Stefanus, and I'm from Indonesia. I majored in Informatic System Specific Website Application Programming, but it didn't work for me, so I decided to make a turn [...]

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A fresh update of Blender-friendly WebGL creator tool is out. Here is what's new.  spatial (3D) audio effects major shader optimizations for faster rendering and loading option to zoom with Ctrl + Scroll in a Google Maps fashion preserving materials swapped via Puzzles, crucial for 3D configurators Performance Profiler outputs more precise information better click [...]

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Luis Roach tries out the free PolyQuilt Retopology Tool extension, that's a fork of an abandoned add-on by Sakana3. Like Maya's Quad Draw, but in Blender and free. We used Polyquilt on a 17-million-triangle model, and here’s how it went!

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: [Monthly Salary] Seeking 3D Animators with Experience in Action/Sports games For more jobs, look here.

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