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Grant Abbitt shares 6 great tips for low poly modelling to make your lowpoly & isometric style scenes look fantastic. 00:00 - start 00:10 - Reducing the complexity 05:21 - Tris & Ngons are OK 06:32 - Object Count 07:09 - Use Empties 09:34 - References 10:23 - Lighting References

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Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: 3D Modeler for FDM Printable Toy Design at StationForge Senior Environment Artist at SAS Studios For more jobs, look here.

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SoCalledGoodArtist shares the creation process of this atmospheric scene.

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Pierrick PIcault explains some techniques used in anime videos that help exaggerate speed effects without adding a ton of work to your project. What you see is what matters. Discover how I convey speed in this stylized animation with an anime look using Blender, 3D and 2D VFX.

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Explore how Kate, a self-taught artist from Poland, uses various techniques to create a visually mesmerizing animation. INTRODUCTION Hello! My name is Kate, and I am a 3D visualiser living in Cracow, Poland. My journey with 3D started, as it did for many of you, thanks to videogames! I love games! One of the first [...]

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The Quad Maker Blender Extension is a set of very simple mesh operations designed to help 3D modelers quickly retopologize objects into clean, quad-based geometry. Inspired by Maya’s Quad Draw, Quad Maker offers Blender users a way to speed up their retopology workflow while maintaining flexibility within Blender’s existing toolset. If you have any questions [...]

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This came in hot: Blenderheads in Seattle are meeting today! (As is the Los Angeles community). Oscar Baechler writes: There's so many things to talk about this month at Seabug!!! Blender 4.3 has finally slapped geometry nodes on grease pencil, which makes for some insane animation possibilities. Plus, let's speedrun the highlights of the 2024 [...]

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

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Join SouthernShotty as he walks us through all the exciting new Blender 4.3 EEVEE features! Blender 4.3 brings updates to EEVEE, its real-time render engine, making it more powerful and versatile than ever before. From improved lighting and shadow fidelity to enhanced material options and rendering capabilities, these updates are crucial for artists looking to [...]

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Blender users in Los Angeles are gathering this weekend!futurehack writes: Los Angeles Blenderheads! Blender 4.3 is scheduled to be released in November and so it's time to meet your peers, make some friends, and enjoy the glory of our favorite software package. Come to our meeting to hear about what's new with Blender, and hear [...]

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It's that time of the year again to dive into procedural design and let your creativity go wild!As always, you can participating by taking one of the Nodevember prompts and publishing your work wherever you feel comfortable and add the #nodevember or tag. Like last year, there's one prompt per two days, and there's no [...]

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Enjoy our selection of the top art from the Blender Artists forum this week!

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Bring your concept to life and get it ready for a 3D modeling with Grease Pencil with this new CG Cookie course. Before a concept can be realised in 3 dimensions, it must be redrawn in technical detail. In TURNAROUND, CG Cookie instructor Paul Caggegi will guide you through the steps necessary to produce a [...]

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Kevandram gives a super quick overview of some new GP features in Blender 4.3, and shows how to use them! Hey everyone! In today’s video, I’m going to show you how to convert 2D grease pencil strokes into 3D meshes in Blender 4.3 using Grease Pencil and Geometry Nodes. I’ll walk you through the process [...]

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Would you know how to make realistic and cinematic animation using only a Blender? In this video, Slavoartist shows you the top features of how he does his cinematic animation using only Blender.

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Reallusion’s 2024 3D Character Contest was held between May 1st to September 30th, 2024. Within 3 months, 267 submissions were submitted from 55 countries. showcases the best 3D character design and animation created using Reallusion’s powerful character production ecosystems - Character Creator for 3D character creation, iClone for facial and body animation, and AccuRIG for [...]

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Luc Affo shares an in-depth overview of the creation of his short 'Ninbot' film on Blender Artists. Hello, this is my first post on the forum. It’s my short film made in 3 months. The majority of the project was done in Blender, and for the other software, ZBrush, Substance, Nuke, and Photoshop. Even though [...]

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Notes for weekly communication of ongoing projects and modules. Announcements Watch over 80 talks from Blender Conference 2024 New Features and Changes This is a selection of changes that happened over the last week. For a full overview including fixes, code only changes and more visit projects.blender.org. Compositor Implement nodes for new CPU compositor: Vector [...]

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Let’s model and animate a 3D UI element and switch between light and dark modes in Blender!

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In this Blender tutorial by Tawan Sunflower, you will learn how to create stylized grass using Geometry Nodes. The video provides a step-by-step guide, breaking down complex techniques into manageable parts to help you effectively construct and render grass in Blender. Key Techniques Covered: Planning your grass design in Blender. Using curves to shape the [...]

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