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Oscar-nominated studio behind Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings joins industry body promoting open-source tech.

Blenderheads in Los Angeles are meeting this weekend! Stirling Goetz writes: Hey Y'all! Blender 4.5.x is out and the LA.Blend organizers are a little less organized than usual. We are scheduling a user group meeting but do not have any formal speaker sessions lined up like we usually do. That means this meeting will have [...]

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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: Scopely | 3D Art Lead - Monopoly GO! Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, |Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Deca Defense | Internship 3D Cinematics, 3D Generalist, Visual VX, (Unreal Engine (UE), Blender, Houdini) Script (Macro) [...]

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The Escapini Brothers are back and a job awaits them in a creepy castle! Check out this Grease Pencil production by Benjamin Aubone (and see episode one here). Benjamin writes: Hello, dear family of Artists! I'm very happy to share with you the new animated short film, The Escapini Brothers 2, made entirely in Grease [...]

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Get Chen Jian's Traditional Chinese-Style Park pack of detailed, modular architectural components free on Fab for two weeks.

Polyfjord uses his free Simple Audio Analyzer add-on to create a brilliant animated audio effect. Enjoy!

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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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Discover how AMD's new Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs performed in CG apps like Blender, Maya and UE5 in our early tests.

Check out the new features in the image-editing software - including a new AI compositing feature based on Project Perfect Blend.

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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Check out the new features in the AI-assisted animation software, including better AI inbetweening and 3Dconnexion support.

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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The real-time liquid simulator is now officially production-ready. Check out the new options for simulating deliciously viscous fluids.

Interesting new tool for creating VFX for games generates both 2D and 3D assets for FX like magic and energy from a single node graph.

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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Latest beta build makes the real-time terrain- and planet-generation tool available for macOS, as well as Windows and Linux.