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Epic's MetaHuman framework for creating 3D characters for games and VFX is out of early access. See its new features - and its new EULA.

If you have ever wanted to break your render up into multiple pieces, view layers can do that for you. This video by Spencer Magnusson breaks down how view layers work, how to set them up, and how to composite the view layers back together after rendering. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay67mbGLt7E

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Desktop photogrammetry software to be unified with Epic's free 3D scanning app for Android and iOS. Check out its upcoming features.

Check out the new features in the game engine, from major updates to Lumen and and the animation tools to the new Mocap Manager.

Artist-friendly renderfarm manager for visualization and VFX supports 3ds Max, Blender and Fusion, with C4D, Maya and Houdini to come.

In this video, Martin Klekner talks about why he stepped away from the semi-realistic style of his previous Heroes of Bronze short film, to pursue the NPR (Non-photoreammo listic) style and finally learn Grease Pencil :-)

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Latest version of the pro graphics tablet for digital painting and 3D modeling reworks the Xencelabs pens, and reduces the price.

In this Blender tutorial, learn how to create a procedural material for Minecraft dirt. You’ll learn how to dynamically adjust the scale of pixelation and amount of grass using the shader editor. This method allows for awesome customizable Minecraft-style blocks.

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You can make so many things with geometry nodes and this video is about animating those things... with geometry nodes. Harry Blends shows you how to procedurally animate a bouncing ball and then instance it so that you can have as many bouncing balls as you please. I talk through every step, from aligning the [...]

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Popular digital sculpting app for iPads and Android tablets is now available as experimental free builds for Windows and macOS.

Here's an overview of the most recent Blender jobs on Blender Artists, ArtStation and 3djobs.xyz: Rival | 3D Artist / Generalist Python Coder Needed for Custom Add-on, Paid Facial Animator Shape Keys 4710 Productions | Blender Lighting Artist (Unpaid) Freelance Hard Surface 3D Character Modeler / RIgging Python developer to build a custom add-on 🎬 [...]

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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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Check out the new features in the roto and paint app, including new AI tools for refining masks, generating depth maps, and fixing glitches.

Popular parametric modeling plugin gets versatile new Spline Operators, and procedural systems for creating windows, walls, ceilings and cables.

Neat add-on lets you create good-looking rivers, complete with surrounding terrain, simply by drawing a path in the viewport.

Spencer Magnusson writes: Proxies are a common industry standard in reducing geometry and making the viewport faster. Few people know that Blender already utilizes proxies within Blender. Let me show you 3 methods (2 of which are automatic!).

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SkySplat is a free Blender addon that simplifies the workflow for creating 3D Gaussian Splats from drone footage. It provides a comprehensive set of tools to streamline the process from video import to frame extraction, and loose integration of Blender with COLMAP and GraphDeco-INRIA's gaussian splatting repo. After several sessions of command line tomfoolery, I [...]

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Discover key features for VFX artists and colorists in this major update to the free grading and editing app and its $295 Studio edition.

Free update to the 3D compositor adds new deep compositing toolset, Cryptomatte support, and 180 VR workflows. See all the new features.

Node-locked licenses of the renderers ended, new ArchDesign, ArchViz and M&E Collection product bundles launched.